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From: ertle@bajoran.emba.uvm.edu (Jim Ertle)
Subject: Re: How do you do that???
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In article <2nstph$1pl@pith.uoregon.edu>,
Carl Dale Anderson <cda@oregon.uoregon.edu> wrote:
>In article <1994Apr5.000128.1@clstac>, jemonaly@csupomona.edu (Joe Monaly Jr.) writes:
>>    Is there someone out there that can help me...  I want to learn how to do
>>the screen animation.  I was wondering if someone could point me somewhere
>>where I could get a manual on the codes for the vt100/320 so I know how to do
>>what it is I want to do.  I have a project that I wanted to do and looked at

>Hey, I'm in the predicament you are. I want to know how to create animations
>but no one seems to know the specifics. I recently got a rather crude ascii
>animation file (through the mail) that was passed along like a chain letter
>from an unidentified source through a friend. I have tried mailing it to myself

   Look in the manual pages for termcap and/or terminfo.  These should
tell you how to read the /etc/termcap and/or /etc/terminfo files,
which do contain the control codes for the different types of
terminals.

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