Re: DON'T TRY 'Cow.vt' animation!!!
From Peter Weighill <stu...@csv.warwick.ac.uk>
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· 13 Nov 1993 16:14 · View full thread
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In article <2c14bf$85...@notwerk.mcs.com>, jor...@Notwerk.mcs.com (Jorn Barger) writes: > >The animation "cow.vt" that was just posted, in uuencoded form, is >dangerous and caused my *Mac* to lock up when uudecoded and catted, >remotely, with Zterm. > >Investigations are underway-- please be aware that this is more >dangerous than anyone told us... > I had tried it myself on an Xterm on Unix/X windows with no such problem. One problem I have noticed with many of these animations is that they do not reset the original screen attributes when finished. Also, cat'ing on animation then another can do weird things. I did this with a couple of them at after wards the screen was displaying a funny character set with just lines instead of characters. Neither of these animations on their own did this, only when they were done on after the other. Perhaps if someone could write a program which could filter out any such 'nasty' escape codes then we would all be a lot happier. Bye, Peter. -----------------===================***====================------------------ stu...@csv.warwick.ac.uk Wizbit -===========================================================================-
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