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- From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
- Subject: Re: animated file
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- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 17:34:59 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug6.090652.12834@cucs5.cs.cuhk.hk> khchan@eng.ie.cuhk.hk
- (chan ka hei) writes:
- =>Hello everybody,
- =>
- => I have once see an animated email, a characters-made train move
- =>from left to right and some trinkets on a tree blink.
- => I have also once seen an animation when I try to 'finger ' a guy.
- => It seems that we could embed some commands in a normal file and the
- =>content of the file will be processed by those command when the file is
- =>'cat'ed or displayed by anyway.
- => Anyone know how to create the animation or the embedding-command
- =>technik?
- =>
- => Please let me know by email. Thanks.
- =>
- => Best Regards.
- => Frank Chan khchan@eng.ie.cuhk.hk
- =>
- => wear to die is better than rust to die....
-
-
- Sure, finger me at sears@menudo.uh.edu to see a rather lengthy text
- aninmation...
-
- I used the program called "asp" and I fed the output into my .plan file...
- From the README file:
-
- > *** Documentation for "asp v3.2, The .plan description language"
- > (c) Alec Muffett, September 1991
- >
- > As detailed in the demonstration programs (just type 'make'), this is
- > "asp", Alec's Scrolling Program, a diddy little hack I put together to
- > finish a war over who could make the longest, best, and prettiest
- > ".plan" files, using only the printable ascii character set.
- >
- > Asp is a simplistic description language for carriage-return based ascii
- > animations, as commonly found in ".plan" files when you finger someone.
- > It is simple to use, so large, smooth, neat animations can be built
- > quickly and easily, and with a lot of room for imagination.
- >
- > The language is crude, I haven't put together a decent lexical analyser,
- > there is no real parser as such, to whit, it is a realio trulio hack, as
- > stated before.
- > .
- > .
- > .
- > Bugs, reports, suggestions, patches to the address below...
- >
- > alec 8-)
- > --
- > INET: aem@aber.ac.uk JANET: aem@uk.ac.aber BITNET: aem%aber@ukacrl
- > UUCP: ...!mcsun!ukc!aber!aem ARPA: aem%uk.ac.aber@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
- > SNAIL: Alec Muffett, Computer Unit, Llandinam UCW, Aberystwyth, UK, SY23 3DB
- >
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