Re: [DIS] VT100 Animations!!!!

>   http://www.eed.usv.ro/misc/graphics/ASCII/animation
> 
> but i tried it last night and got "server unreachable"

Hey, It works now!!!



> here is something you might find of interest ...
> machines, networks and servers are so much faster
> these days it may lose some of its effect ...
> also some VT100 emulators don't stream the data
> properly and merely show the final result
> but if you have a stock VT100 or VT220 ...

It didn't work :(
Got a lot of garbled text though. Any other suggestions?

I used a script called 'slowcat' to view this on my linus terminal.
For those in this group who have seen VT100 animations, please
download a few from the source given above, and compile the code given
below
The command is bash$: cat whatever.vt | ./a.out -d 120
the '120' is the time delay in microseconds, but yopu can specify
anything you like.

/*
  slowcat - copies stuff from stdin to stdout, character by character,
    with delay.

  Copyright (c) Weyfour WWWWolf (Urpo Lankinen) 11.02.2000
  Distributed under the Artistic Lisence
  As usual, no warranty - this is just a quick hack!
  This code was improved by Nitin Gupta, Aerospace Engineer, IIT
Bombay,
  on Sept 8, 2002
  $Id: slowcat.c,v 1.0 2000/02/11 00:04:44 wwwwolf Exp wwwwolf $
*/

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <getopt.h>

int main(int carg, char **varg)
{
  char character;
  int verbose = 0;
  int delay = 1; /* Delay in microseconds */

  /* These are needed for getopt() */
  int opt,de;

  /* Process arguments */

  while(opt != EOF) {

    opt = getopt(carg, varg, "d:hv?");
    if(opt != EOF) {
      switch(opt) {
      case (int)'d':
        delay = atoi(optarg) ; /* convert optarg to int */
        break;
      case (int)'h':
      case (int)'?':
        fprintf(stderr,"slowcat, by WWWWolf 11.02.2000\n");
        fprintf(stderr,"$Id: slowcat.c,v 1.0 2000/02/11 00:04:44
wwwwolf Exp wwwwolf $\n");
        fprintf(stderr,"Usage: %s [-d delay] [-h]\n", varg[0]);
        exit(0);

        break;
        case (int)'v':
        verbose = 1;
        break;
        default:
        break;
      }
    }
  }

  if(verbose)
    fprintf(stderr, "Delay: %d \265s\n", delay);

  /* Loop itself: get character, put character, sleep */
  while(!feof(stdin)) {
    character = (char) getchar();
    putchar(character);
    fflush(stdout);
  for(de =1;de<1000*delay;de++);
//   usleep(delay);
  }

  return 0;
}
/*
  Local variables:
  compile-command:"gcc -Wall -g slowcat.c -o slowcat"
  End:
*/

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