7 Feb
2020
7 Feb
'20
3:48 a.m.
On Fri, 7 Feb 2020, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Wed, 5 Feb 2020, Dan Cross wrote:
I loved ascii animations back the day, collected a bunch of them,
including the one about the Andalusion Video Snail @/
http://bl.org/~mparson/ascii-anim/
There's a perl script in there for 'slowcat' to print them out slower.
--
Michael Parson
Pflugerville, TX
KF5LGQ
Perhaps I've sent this story to TUHS before,
but I can't resist.
"finger: the most inappropriately named command in computerdom" (no,
that's not a challenge...).
[ Hilarious story ]
Back in ye olde Usenet days, someone had an animated .plan which was
all about the "Andalusian snail" (the "@" character was the snail).
It used ANSI escape sequences, showing it in the 25th line (the
"status" line), and was quite funny.
Of course, you had to have the right speed; too fast, and it just
zipped past, and too slow, well, it, just crawled along :-) ISTR that
9600 was about right.
Anyone remember that?