Re: Help on .plan
From Matt Messina <mes...@engin.umich.edu>
· alt.ascii-art.animation
· 6 Jan 1995 13:47 · View full thread
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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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd588,d7489de1d0b59fef X-Google-Attributes: gidfd588,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-01-06 06:50:08 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!caen!messina From: mes...@engin.umich.edu (Matt Messina) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art.animation Subject: Re: Help on .plan Date: 6 Jan 1995 13:47:51 GMT Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor Lines: 26 Message-ID: <3ejhm7$kt...@srvr1.engin.umich.edu> References: <D1I...@hkuxb.hku.hk> <D1z...@news.ci.ua.pt> Reply-To: mes...@umich.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: sapphire.engin.umich.edu X-Copyright: This article is Copyright (C) 1995 by Matt Messina X-Disclaimer: Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of U. of Michigan
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