Animation in .plan!!!!! Come on someone has to know!

Come on I have been asking for awile.. and gave up cause no one replied..
How do you do animation in a .plan?

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Azeem Shahjahan Jiva (aji...@galaxy.csc.calpoly.edu) wrote:
> Come on I have been asking for awile.. and gave up cause no one replied..
> How do you do animation in a .plan?

name the animation .plan
peoples fingering you have to have vt100 emulation to see the animation tho.

fli...@telerama.lm.com (Dreamer of Dreams) writes:

>Azeem Shahjahan Jiva (aji...@galaxy.csc.calpoly.edu) wrote:
>> Come on I have been asking for awile.. and gave up cause no one replied..
>> How do you do animation in a .plan?

>name the animation .plan
>peoples fingering you have to have vt100 emulation to see the animation tho.

There is another way, useful for single-line animations, that requires no 
special terminal emulation.  You have to replace the line-feed charachter 
(0x0A) with a carraige return (0x0D).  This will have the effect of 
overstriking the line.  Finger usually strips out vt100 commands, for 
security purposes (f1 can be remapped to rm -r ~ with the proper escape 
sequences), but there is no way to reprogram a terminal using carraige 
returns.

To see an example of this, finger kuj...@scf.usc.edu.  For a better 
example, finger kli...@scf.usc.edu

Ivor

Dreamer of Dreams (fli...@telerama.lm.com) wrote:
: Azeem Shahjahan Jiva (aji...@galaxy.csc.calpoly.edu) wrote:
: > Come on I have been asking for awile.. and gave up cause no one replied..
: > How do you do animation in a .plan?

: name the animation .plan
: peoples fingering you have to have vt100 emulation to see the animation tho.

I'm afraid you're quite incorrect, I had tried that several times and it
doesn't work.  While fingering someone you'd thing it would be similar to
catting a file it just doesn't seem to work that way.  
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>I'm afraid you're quite incorrect, I had tried that several times and it
>doesn't work.  While fingering someone you'd thing it would be similar to
>catting a file it just doesn't seem to work that way.  

As I said yesterday, that is a security measure, because it is possible 
to reprogram a vt100 using escape sequences, so, for instance, f1 could 
be remapped to 'rm -r ~'.  Not pretty.

For the benifit of anyone else asking, I am posting the message I mailed 
to dalek about single-line animations in one's .plan: