dead cow don't work

howdy,

  i tried to use the exploding cow in my .plan, but when i finger it, it
just scrolls up all the control characters and everything, but when i
cat my .plan, it works fine...

  any suggestions?

  bob   <---- like my .sig?  it could probably use a little work ;)

Robert C Rich (rri...@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu) wrote:
: howdy,

:   i tried to use the exploding cow in my .plan, but when i finger it, it
: just scrolls up all the control characters and everything, but when i
: cat my .plan, it works fine...

:   any suggestions?

:   bob   <---- like my .sig?  it could probably use a little work ;)
Well, it's a textfile that only the cat command understands.
If you want it to work whne you finger the account, you have to do this
finger rri...@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu | cat
This will hopefully show the file properly.
However, it's kind of hard to get everyone to remember to do this.
I just put the file in my public directory, along with the file named
CAT_THESE_FILES_TO_SEE_THE_ANIMATION
Self explanitory.

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