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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 15 Jul 1994.
Re: TALK: Animations in .plan

Re: TALK: Animations in .plan

R. Nortman (rcn...@midway.uchicago.edu) wrote:

: How do I put a vt animation in a .plan file, and how would I use an
: animation using the write command (for those of you using unix)?

you can rename the file containing the animation to '~/.plan'
on most systems if you are fingered locally (finger yourname) the user will 
see a garbled sequence of control codes, but if you are fingered remotely
(finger yourname@yoursite) the user will see the animation.  Some systems
will not allow remote fingers at all, because of traffic.  

for an example of an animated .plan, try: 
     finger jpa...@mole.uvm.edu
                     ^^^^
for an example of a site that does not allow remote fingers, try:
     finger jpa...@moose.uvm.edu
                     ^^^^^
: While we're at it, can these be sent in a mail message?

only if they are uuencoded first.  They can't be sent so that the user
will see the animation in their mail reader.

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Jake Patterson              "...You'll see my teeth in the stars above..."
jpa...@moose.uvm.edu           
jpa...@mole.uvm.edu		-TMBG
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Subject: Re: TALK: Animations in .plan
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