X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,3359f3c62361f7d6 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-04-20 09:29:49 PST Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Path: gmd.de!nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!nott!emr1!nveilleu.cpcs.emr.ca!Nveilleu From: Nveilleu@emr1.emr.ca (Normand Veilleux) Subject: Re: RUBIC thing movie Message-ID: Lines: 23 Sender: news@emr1.emr.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: nveilleu.cpcs.emr.ca Organization: CPCS, Energy Mines & Resources, Canada References: <1994Apr20.110206.2269@crosfield.co.uk> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1994 16:29:49 GMT >From: rak@crosfield.co.uk (Richard Kirk) > >This is a neat bit of animation. The bit I particularly liked was that it >ran on my newsreader and I could control the rate the pages 'flicked' at. >This is a lot easier then the animations you have to unpack, and which have to >repeat patterns hundreds of times to hold something on the terminal. Simple >and easy to use. This has a lot of possibilities. Nice one, Scott! > >However maybe this didn't happen on all newsreaders. Did anyone have trouble >getting this to work on their newsreader? Do we know what non-printing >characters work for everyone? > Well, it did not work on mine. I access the news via Windows on a PC. The form feeds were displayed as a graphical symbol instead of being interpreted. So, I could scroll up and down as thought it was all one continuous message. Hence, this was not, I repeat, NOT an animation. Sorry to spoil your fun; I would have liked to see it too. -- Normand Veilleux nveilleu@emr1.emr.ca ----------------------------