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Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art.animation, started 5 Feb 1994.
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Unofficial FAQ

Unofficial FAQ

alt.ascii-art.animation · 1 message · 5 Feb 1994
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!

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