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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 4 Feb 1995.
Re: Animation in .plan!!!!! Come on someone has to know!

Re: Animation in .plan!!!!! Come on someone has to know!


>I'm afraid you're quite incorrect, I had tried that several times and it
>doesn't work.  While fingering someone you'd thing it would be similar to
>catting a file it just doesn't seem to work that way.  

As I said yesterday, that is a security measure, because it is possible 
to reprogram a vt100 using escape sequences, so, for instance, f1 could 
be remapped to 'rm -r ~'.  Not pretty.

For the benifit of anyone else asking, I am posting the message I mailed 
to dalek about single-line animations in one's .plan:

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Path: nntp.gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!usc!not-for-mail
From: kuj...@nunki.usc.edu (Ivor von Wolfsheim)
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
Subject: Re: Animation in .plan!!!!! Come on someone has to know!
Date: 4 Feb 1995 11:36:11 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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References: <3gn9lb$pq...@waldorf.csc.calpoly.edu> <3gshb2$ae...@tusk.lm.com> <3h01uu$3b1...@holly.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
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