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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art.animation, 6 Jan 1995.
Re: Help on .plan

Re: Help on .plan

Sergio Bernardo <ser...@ci.ua.pt> wrote:
>>        Recently I copied an ascii animation as .plan file. But when I 
>>finger myself, it turns out to be a lot a characters instead of the 
>>animation. Then how can I use an animation as my plan?
>
>I'm not an expert in these things, but i think the problem
>lies on the fact that the finger information flows thought
>text mode, 7 bit information, and the animations have
>control characteres that use the 8th bit.

No, the escape character is ASCII 33octal -- you only need 7 bits.  

>That is whay the vt files must be uuencoded at the news!

Vt files must be uuencoded because many news servers remove the escape 
character.

>What is hapening to you is that when you finger youself
>you see the "animation", but the 8th bit of the caracteres
>is always "0", the result is a screen full of trash!

What is probably happening is you are doing `finger you' rather than 
`finger yo...@your.site'.  Just something weird about fingerd.
-- 
Matt Messina
mes...@umich.edu

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From: mes...@engin.umich.edu (Matt Messina)
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Subject: Re: Help on .plan
Date: 6 Jan 1995 13:47:51 GMT
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