Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art.animation, started 28 Aug 1996.
Help decoding/viewing *.z files...
alt.ascii-art.animation
· 3 messages · 28 Aug 1996 - 31 Aug 1996
Hi, Could someone please post something about how to view these files that are being posted. Before, I used to just take the .vt files down by :decode, and then after changing the permissions I could run them. Now I am struggling to get the .vt.z files working! What type of compression format is used? I am in a Unix type account, and when I try and do an Uncompress on the file it says it is not in that format. Is there any chance that any of the .vts could be posted uncompressed? I'll be thankful of any response..! yours Ciaran Hope cjh...@alf2.tcd.ie
On 28 Aug 1996, ....CIARAN.... wrote: > Hi, > Could someone please post something about how to view these files that > are being posted. Before, I used to just take the .vt files down by > :decode, and then after changing the permissions I could run them. Now > I am struggling to get the .vt.z files working! What type of compression > format is used? I am in a Unix type account, and when I try and do an > Uncompress on the file it says it is not in that format. Is there any > chance that any of the .vts could be posted uncompressed? > I'll be thankful of any response..! > yours > Ciaran Hope > cjh...@alf2.tcd.ie Reposting of all the articles would take someone a lot of time and waste a lot of bandwidth. However most of the recently posted animations can also be downloaded in uncompress form at this site: http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~paulf/html/asciiart/ascii.html There are some still ascii pictures here too. Cheers :) Paul. P.S. The original posts were compressed using gzip which is from those wonderful gnu people, you should be able to download that from somewhere too, but I don't know where.
In <Pin...@gadsby.cs.ualberta.ca> Paul Ferry <pau...@gadsby.cs.ualberta.ca> writes: >P.S. The original posts were compressed using gzip which is from those >wonderful gnu people, you should be able to download that from somewhere >too, but I don't know where. The 'official' GNU site is prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu (I think that that's the official site. Not 100% sure tho.) Joost ----- Think about all the good in your life - It's only temporary Think about all the positive sides in life - They never last forever So drink to forget and drown all your sorrow SENTENCED Bury your dreams and choose Catharsis NEPENTHE -- Think about all the good in your life - It's only temporary Think about all the positive sides in life - They never last forever So drink to forget and drown all your sorrow SENTENCED Bury your dreams and choose Catharsis NEPENTHE
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