X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: fd588,d7489de1d0b59fef X-Google-Attributes: gidfd588,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-01-06 04:33:07 PST Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art.animation Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!igor.rutgers.edu!rutgers!dziuxsolim.rutgers.edu!uunet!news.sprintlink.net!EU.net!nova.puug.pt!ciup2.ncc.up.pt!news.ci.ua.pt!usenet From: sergio@ci.ua.pt (Sergio Bernardo) Subject: Re: Help on .plan Sender: usenet@news.ci.ua.pt (News Administrator) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 6 Jan 1995 12:33:07 GMT References: Nntp-Posting-Host: candy.ci.ua.pt Organization: Centro de Inform�tica X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.6+ Lines: 31 In article , h9104374@hkuxa.hku.hk (William) says: > > >Hello, > > Recently I copied an ascii animation as .plan file. But when I >finger myself, it turns out to be a lot a characters instead of the >animation. Then how can I use an animation as my plan? > > -- > |> | > | III |> > William Wong /-|\ III i> | > _|__|__III i ^ > Department of Physics, |>\______/III i ^^^ > The University of Hong Kong, | !__!__III/\ ^^^^^ > Pokfulam Road, /\\ ////|====IIII === > Hong Kong /\\\/////|====IIII === > | | ||||::::::IIII === > | | |||| IIII === I�m not an expert in these things, but i think the problem lies on the fact that the finger information flows thought text mode, 7 bit information, and the animations have control characteres that use the 8th bit. That is whay the vt files must be uuencoded at the news! What is hapening to you is that when you finger youself you see the "animation", but the 8th bit of the caracteres is always "0", the result is a screen full of trash!