X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,17f651dadba31122 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-03-24 14:26:24 PST Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Path: gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!festival!eddie From: eddie@festival.ed.ac.uk (Eddie Corns) Subject: Re: Use this to slow down view of ascii anims (UNIX) References: <2mjb35$2uj@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> Message-ID: Organization: Edinburgh University Distribution: inet Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 22:26:24 GMT Lines: 10 Use of usleep etc. A much simpler and almost certainly much more portable method (and one that could be done in almost any language) would be to output a number of NUL characters after _each_ character output. The more NULs the slower it goes! I think almost any operating system/terminal will cope with this. Just a suggestion. Eddie