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From: C.Groom@newcastle.ac.uk (C. Groom)
Subject: Animation viewing utils
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Summary: Utils for viewing vt animations
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU
Keywords: Animation
Date: Sun, 29 May 1994 21:18:01 GMT
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Hello all,

The ASCII animation fans out there will no doubt know that some
animations go far too quickly on their machines. 

There are two solutions though...
   1. View them on a 286PC... this will slow them down *B^)
   2. Use a software program.

Anyway, since there have been some posts recently concerning
road-runner(beeb-beep) animations I'll post some programs that I have 
written to slooooooooowwwwww  down these animations. 

The programs will be:

  1. vtcat    - an alternative to type(msdos) cat(UNIX). this prog
                will display your animations at the speed you like.

  2. delayvt  - this inserts delays into an animation file so that
                the animation itself becomes slooooower

  3. revdelay - this UNDO's the delays added by  "delayvt" so that
                you get the original animation as written by the
                author.

The posts will be uuencoded and contain the C-source code.
However, if you can ftp and you have a PC then you can get the
executables(in addition to the source code) from my ftp site:

           ftp site: tuda.newcastle.ac.uk
           address : 128.240.2.1
           path    : /pub/local/n1ka0/animation/progs/utils
           programs: vtcat.exe, delayvt.exe, and revdelay.exe


The programs were originally written for my own use.... actually 
I had forgotten how to do file handling in C so these programs
jogged my memory.. Anyway there ARE better algorithms/code to do the 
same thing... but only the C experts among us will whinge about that!

At some point I will tidy everything up into one menu driven
program with a sweet witty interface and nice meaningful functions.


That's ya lot,

Chris Groom.




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