[DIS] VT100 Animations!!!!

Just discovered them!!!
Greatmaxxx!!

does anyone here have any idea how to run them in .plan files when
somebody fingers you on the unix console?

and any hidden resources thst any reader here knows of???
(any hidden goldmne of VT100 animations..........)

please post.


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Rishi Tandon writes
>Just discovered them!!!
>Greatmaxxx!!
>
>does anyone here have any idea how to run them in .plan files when
>somebody fingers you on the unix console?
>
>and any hidden resources thst any reader here knows of???
>(any hidden goldmne of VT100 animations..........)

hi ...
a year or so ago i downloaded part (36 files) of the collection
(about 90 files) at this location:

  http://www.eed.usv.ro/misc/graphics/ASCII/animation

but i tried it last night and got "server unreachable"

>
>please post.
>
>

here is something you might find of interest ...
machines, networks and servers are so much faster
these days it may lose some of its effect ...
also some VT100 emulators don't stream the data
properly and merely show the final result
but if you have a stock VT100 or VT220 ...
anyway here is the article in its entirety:-
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Newsgroups: alt.sources
From: p63...@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Dirk Muders)
Subject: Re: .plan Generator for Finger
Message-ID: <199...@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
Followup-To: alt.sources.d
Organization: Max Planck Institut fuer Radioastronomie
References: <199...@ucl.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1993 13:39:47 GMT
Lines: 77

In article <199...@ucl.ac.uk> ucj...@ucl.ac.uk writes:
>Somewhere i saw a .plan generator.
>
>You gave it the text of your .plan, and it produced a BIG file containing
>ASCII (vt100 ?) codes to produce a fancy .plan for `finger'.
>
>ie, each letter in turn zooms through the alphabet untill it reaches its
>target, like a rail-way timetable machine, &c.
>
>Any pointers welcome.  Thanks, Jonny

     Some time ago I wrote the piece of code you are looking for. I
called the program m(ake)plan.c. You just have to compile it via

     cc -O mplan.c -o mplan
     
and then say

     mplan <Text> [Output file]

and the <Text> will be written in the manner described above. Without an
output filename it goes to stdout.

     And here it is:

--------8<----8<----8<------ mplan.c ----->8---->8---->8-----------

#include "stdio.h"

main(argc,argv)
int argc;
char *argv[];
{
int i, j, z = 0, jmax;
FILE *datptr;

switch(argc)
  {
  case 2: datptr = stdout;
          break;

  case 3: datptr = fopen(argv[2],"w+");
          break;
  
  default: printf("Usage: mplan <Text> [Output file]\n");
           exit(1);
           break;
  }

jmax = strlen(argv[1]);

for(i = 32; i < 128; i++)  /* Loop over chars that appear in normal text */
  if(z < jmax)             /* Stop when all chars have reached the end */
    {
    z = 0;

    for(j = 0; j < jmax; j++)
      if(i <= argv[1][j])
        fputc(i,datptr);
      else
        {
        fputc(argv[1][j],datptr);
        z++;               /* Count the chars that reached the end */
        }
    fputc(13,datptr);      /* Get back to the start of the line */
    }

fprintf(datptr,"\n");

fclose(datptr);
}

--------8<----8<----8<-------------------->8---->8---->8-----------

Dirk Muders
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie
Auf dem Huegel 69
D-53121 Bonn
p63...@MPIfR-Bonn.MPG.de
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>   http://www.eed.usv.ro/misc/graphics/ASCII/animation
> 
> but i tried it last night and got "server unreachable"

Hey, It works now!!!



> here is something you might find of interest ...
> machines, networks and servers are so much faster
> these days it may lose some of its effect ...
> also some VT100 emulators don't stream the data
> properly and merely show the final result
> but if you have a stock VT100 or VT220 ...

It didn't work :(
Got a lot of garbled text though. Any other suggestions?

I used a script called 'slowcat' to view this on my linus terminal.
For those in this group who have seen VT100 animations, please
download a few from the source given above, and compile the code given
below
The command is bash$: cat whatever.vt | ./a.out -d 120
the '120' is the time delay in microseconds, but yopu can specify
anything you like.

/*
  slowcat - copies stuff from stdin to stdout, character by character,
    with delay.

  Copyright (c) Weyfour WWWWolf (Urpo Lankinen) 11.02.2000
  Distributed under the Artistic Lisence
  As usual, no warranty - this is just a quick hack!
  This code was improved by Nitin Gupta, Aerospace Engineer, IIT
Bombay,
  on Sept 8, 2002
  $Id: slowcat.c,v 1.0 2000/02/11 00:04:44 wwwwolf Exp wwwwolf $
*/

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <getopt.h>

int main(int carg, char **varg)
{
  char character;
  int verbose = 0;
  int delay = 1; /* Delay in microseconds */

  /* These are needed for getopt() */
  int opt,de;

  /* Process arguments */

  while(opt != EOF) {

    opt = getopt(carg, varg, "d:hv?");
    if(opt != EOF) {
      switch(opt) {
      case (int)'d':
        delay = atoi(optarg) ; /* convert optarg to int */
        break;
      case (int)'h':
      case (int)'?':
        fprintf(stderr,"slowcat, by WWWWolf 11.02.2000\n");
        fprintf(stderr,"$Id: slowcat.c,v 1.0 2000/02/11 00:04:44
wwwwolf Exp wwwwolf $\n");
        fprintf(stderr,"Usage: %s [-d delay] [-h]\n", varg[0]);
        exit(0);

        break;
        case (int)'v':
        verbose = 1;
        break;
        default:
        break;
      }
    }
  }

  if(verbose)
    fprintf(stderr, "Delay: %d \265s\n", delay);

  /* Loop itself: get character, put character, sleep */
  while(!feof(stdin)) {
    character = (char) getchar();
    putchar(character);
    fflush(stdout);
  for(de =1;de<1000*delay;de++);
//   usleep(delay);
  }

  return 0;
}
/*
  Local variables:
  compile-command:"gcc -Wall -g slowcat.c -o slowcat"
  End:
*/