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From: crisp@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Badvoc)
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In <2mkrap$64a@dante.exide.com> murray@sunw30.exide.com (Alan Murray) writes:
[Some stuff deleted.]
>
>And now that I'm here:  someone a while back posted a C program that
>does the same thing as cat (sorry, can't find the original post to give
>credit).  Anyway, for those of you who want to slow down the animation,
>you can use the following modified version.  Just set DELAY to a suitable
>number to slow down the animation.  1000 works best on this computer, but
>change it to suit your taste.
>
[Program deleted.]

You are doing it all wrong.
Here is the program I use.

#include <malloc.h>

int main(argc, argv)
    char **argv;
{
    char *ptr;
    int i, l = argc > 1 ? atoi(argv[1]) : 1;

    if(ptr = malloc(l))
    {
	while((i = read(0, ptr, l)) && i != -1)
	    write(1, ptr, l);
    }

    return 0;
}

It takes one argument. "1" being the slowest and the bigger the faster.


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