How To Use ASCII ESC [Beginners Level]

To set up a vt100 animation in a .plan first create your animation (see 
"How To Do ESC Sequences [Beginners Level]" for how to create esc. seq.).

 Since most $HOME directories are kept small, a symbolic link to the tmp 
or temporary file space has to be used. This can be set up as follows:

$ ln -s /where/your/anim/is/foo.bah /$HOME/.plan
$ chmod a+x foo.bah
$ chmod a+r foo.bah

 Whenever you replace foo.bah, make sure you check the file permissions 
that they are world-readable.

-rwxr-xr-x  1 sstaetz       1890 Dec  1 02:29 foo.bah*

 The structure of a .plan should be small enough for those who have poor 
connections don't go comatose waiting for the .plan to finish, and not 
too short that no one knows they even saw a .plan <G>. Generally, keep 
one event/movement per line and under 500 lines (for .plans). **Always**
include the reset ( ^[0m ) at the very end of your .plan regardless of 
whether or not you think you set enough resets to be ok. Don't risk 
someone's wrath of bad screen reset after your plan. Never include 
extended ascii chars (i.e., anything that isn't on your keyboard now, 
don't put in a .plan) most systems filter these out and all you see is 
control characters. **NEVER** try to use the "beep" (hex 07), enough
systems like to think that was an error and will cut the remaining data flow 
short on you, not worth wrestling with <wink>.

 Susan



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