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Original Usenet message from rec.arts.ascii, 3 Feb 1995.
Talk: GIF conversion animations

Talk: GIF conversion animations

In article <3gpg9i$a5...@gagme.wwa.com> fle...@cse.psu.edu (Felix Lee) writes:
>what I'm wondering is if anyone's interested in making some sort of
>standard for ascii animation, so it can be displayed in a
>device-independent manner and with a controlled frame rate.  relying
>on vt100 codes and arbitrary computer delays is kind of awkward..

To DOSify that recent (amazing) animation, all I had to do was put the other 
CR/LF character at the end of the lines, and to prepend <esc>[2J (ANSI clear 
screen) to the <esc>[1H1 command (goto 1,1).  It seems that any compitent 
editor would be able to do this (if it'll handle files above the 1 meg mark.)

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  .,,.
   oo    Little did the good Doctor Honeydew suspect
  `()'    that his faithful assistant Beaker was secretly
  _||/     an accomplished soprano in the Vienna Boy's Choir,
 / a/'\     as well as a dashingly successful British spy.
 \_/\_/  Jeremy H. Sproat  internet:1sp...@uvsc.edu

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