Re: Tips on viewing Ascii Animations

Lester5374 <les...@aol.com> wrote:
>> Here is a repeat ( uuencoded...HeHeHe ) in case your copy got munged
>> somewhere along the way but I suspect, as you do, that the sequence
>> following ;-*D;@ must have triggered a macro or the command to
>> uudecode in your AOL set-up. Similarly some sequence must have
>> triggered the Underlining of the UUE. I guess that even pure ASCII
>> sequences can act as control codes if the software is written that
>> way.  *8-(

>     Ha, it worked that time! <g> God, I need a REAL ISP.

>> So there you go...see what AOL does to that!

>     For a change, it did what it was supposed to do. :)


Well OK, but the idea of the Pure Ascii-Text UUdecode is that it
could be sent to people who had no UUdecode program and had no way
of getting one because any Executable UUdecoder would have had to be
uudecoded before it could be used...a Catch 22 situation.

When I first joined the Net I had no uudecoder and a user at my ISP
sent me the "Ascii Decoder" in an email message. I was totally
astonished when it worked like an executable *.com file and I still
consider it to be magic.

In fact what you have is an auto-uudecoder built into your ISP's
set-up at AOL which auto-decodes even when it is not required to do
any uudecoding.


What happened when your AOL set-up got to the cat's tongue in the
picture below? It should have triggered the Underline function and
munged the picture thereafter?


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Bye,