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From: s0130703@cc.ysu.edu (Daniel East)
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Subject: Re: DON'T TRY 'Cow.vt' animation!!!
Date: 13 Nov 1993 04:14:12 GMT
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Dan noticed that Jorn Barger once wrote: 
-> ***************ALERT**********************************************

-> The animation "cow.vt" that was just posted, in uuencoded form, is
-> dangerous and caused my *Mac* to lock up when uudecoded and catted,
-> remotely, with Zterm.

  How in the world could vt100 codes lock up a computer when received
through a terminal program?  There is no way that is possible.  After all,
it's only ASCII characters that are being sent across the serial port!  I 
think your problem is that you are using a Mac.

--
  Dan

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