Re: Unofficial FAQ
From Ian Frederic STEWART <ia...@cs.mcgill.ca>
· alt.ascii-art.animation
· 5 Feb 1994 17:01 · View full thread
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In article <199...@newstand.syr.edu> jgp...@rodan.syr.edu (John G Poupore) writes: >From: ia...@cs.mcgill.ca (Ian Frederic STEWART) >Revised: jgp...@mailbox.syr.edu (John G. Poupore) >Subject: Animation FAQ! (please read, jor...@...com) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ John, if you are going to repost my FAQ, can you please toss the below stuff and the stuff in the subject, it was a misunderstanding. > >Sorry to finger you directly, jorn, but you posted Globe.vt without >uuencoding it, and now noone will be able to see it as an animation. I >wanted you to see this, since you seem to be a regular... :) >(he's addicted! he's addicted!) > And please get consent from people before modifying and reposting their files. It is too easy to say "To slow down animations, type "rm *". This will tell UNIX to go slower..." If you think that is ridiculous, a person here posted to a local newsgroup: Cool new UNIX command: echo "jjjjjhjejjjljjljo jjIjjmjjj jajjnjjjj ijjjjdjjijjojjt" |sed /r/j//g | wall or something like that, which has the effect of posting the message "hello Im an idiot" to all the users online. Funny at first, but it was being run so much be beginners that the sysadmin disabled the wall command. Here's my obligatory animation: :) Blink really fast and it moves! -- --------------------------------------------------------------- ------ ### |Ian.Stewart,.U1....@cs.mcgill.ca.Tel:737-0680......-####-?.d.@## |NO,.I'm.NOT.doing.anything.productive.today...Gotta.problem?.| |..!.| --------------------------------------------------------------- -+----
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd588,38697720f11e579a,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfd588,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-02-05 09:01:42 PST Path: gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.moneng.mei.com!uwm.edu!rutgers!utcsri!newsflash.concordia.ca!sifon!homer.cs.mcgill.ca!ian From: ia...@cs.mcgill.ca (Ian Frederic STEWART) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art.animation Subject: Re: Unofficial FAQ Keywords: FAQ Message-ID: <2j0jdm$bc...@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> Date: 5 Feb 94 17:01:42 GMT References: <199...@newstand.syr.edu> Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Lines: 41 NNTP-Posting-Host: binkley
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