pause

trouble with ascii and the initial set of control codes is there isn't a
pause character, not even in ansi.

_.-In alt.ascii-art, jer0en wrote the following -._
> trouble with ascii and the initial set of control codes is there isn't a
> pause character, not even in ansi.

Of course there isn't a pause in ASCII.  Why you would expect one is
something I can't comprehend.

I should have some new ascii art for everyone this week.  I just got
back from the RNC and feel the need to do some riot police in ascii
art. 

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jer0en wrote:

>trouble with ascii and the initial set of control codes is there isn't a
>pause character, not even in ansi.

A coma is often considered to be a "pause" in written communication...
if that helps.

_.-In alt.ascii-art, Sharky wrote the following -._
> jer0en wrote:
>
>>trouble with ascii and the initial set of control codes is there isn't a
>>pause character, not even in ansi.
>
> A coma is often considered to be a "pause" in written communication...
> if that helps.

...

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Faux_Pseudo wrote:

>_.-In alt.ascii-art, Sharky wrote the following -._
>> jer0en wrote:
>>
>>>trouble with ascii and the initial set of control codes is there isn't a
>>>pause character, not even in ansi.
>>
>> A coma is often considered to be a "pause" in written communication...
>> if that helps.
>
>...

"..." is an ellipse or a place holder for a continuation of a sentence
or written thought.  In this case it would have been "like taking a
breath during speech".

Sharky wrote:
> jer0en wrote:
> 
>> trouble with ascii and the initial set of control codes is there isn't a
>> pause character, not even in ansi.
> 
> A coma is often considered to be a "pause" in written communication...
> if that helps.

A coma is a pause in your life.  A comma on the other hand, could be a
pause in a sentence.  ;o)

-- 
Joe

Elmo wrote:

>Sharky wrote:
>> jer0en wrote:
>> 
>>> trouble with ascii and the initial set of control codes is there isn't a
>>> pause character, not even in ansi.
>> 
>> A coma is often considered to be a "pause" in written communication...
>> if that helps.
>
>A coma is a pause in your life.  A comma on the other hand, could be a
>pause in a sentence.  ;o)

Trew dat! ;-p

In alt.ascii-art, jer0en <jer...@freemail.nl> wrote:
> trouble with ascii and the initial set of control codes is there isn't a
> pause character, not even in ansi.

You are doing animations? The old trick is just pad with some sort of
no-op to get the delay needed. Spaces and carriage return (without
linefeed), lots of nulls, things like that. Those worked fine on the
slow (2400 or less) connection speeds of old, but you need a lot of
padding for a modern window. My xterm ssh'ed to a remote host claims
to be 38400 baud, but I bet it's faster than that. 

My crude -- it works for some animations, but not all --  solution:
a perl script I call slowcat, that pauses during printing. Source
included below.

Elijah
------
#!/usr/bin/perl -wn
# slowcat: A slow version of 'cat' for playing ascii-art movies on
# fast terminals.
#
# B. Elijah Griffin / Eli the Bearded	7 Jun 2001

use strict;
use vars qw( $part @parts $delay $default);

BEGIN {
  my $usage;

  $default = 0.02;

USAGE:
  if ($usage) {
    print STDERR <<"UsageEnd";
$0: usage
    slowcat [ -d delay ] [file ...]

Delay is fractional seconds.  Default delay is $default seconds.
UsageEnd
    exit 2;
  }

  if (defined($ARGV[0])) {
    if ($ARGV[0] eq '-h' or $ARGV[0] eq '--help') {
      $usage = 1;
      goto USAGE;
    } elsif ($ARGV[0] eq '-d' or $ARGV[0] eq '--delay') {
      shift;
      $delay = shift;
      if (!defined($delay) or $delay !~ /^(?:\d*\.)?\d+$/) {
        warn "$0: Bad delay\n";
        $usage = 1;
        goto USAGE;
      }
    }
  }

  $delay = $default unless $delay;
  $| ++;
# system("tput clear");
}

@parts = split(/(?=\c[)/);
for $part (@parts) {
  if (length($part) > 80) {
    while(length($part)) {
      select(undef,undef,undef, $delay);
      print substr($part,0,80,'');
    }
  } else {
    select(undef,undef,undef, $delay);
    print $part;
  }
}

__END__