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Original Usenet thread from rec.arts.ascii, started 14 Oct 1994.
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rec.arts.ascii · 2 messages · 14 Oct 1994 - 2 Nov 1994
Bob Allison <bob...@wwa.com> ASCII art 14 Oct 1994 05:24 · permalink · report 
Jake Patterson <jpa...@mole.uvm.edu> wrote:
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>That was great!  I have a hint though.  You can avoid having to uncompress
>the file by using zcat instead of cat.  Just type 'zcat aquarium.vt.Z'  This 
>saves alot of disk space! (ascii animations compress very well, sometimes as
>much as 10 to 1)

   You can view animations, color pics, and regular ASCII pic, whether 
they are .Z or .gz with zact and gzcat.  It's a real space saver.

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Yin Chu <cs6...@cory.EECS.Berkeley.EDU> ASCII art 2 Nov 1994 16:46 · permalink · report 
In article <37l4n0$pn...@gagme.wwa.com>, Bob Allison <bob...@wwa.com> wrote:
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>Jake Patterson <jpa...@mole.uvm.edu> wrote:
>   You can view animations, color pics, and regular ASCII pic, whether 


Excuse me but, what are color picts and how can I view them???

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