X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,cfbf3b9c9d2640a3 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-08 02:50:40 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!nntp.news.xara.net!xara.net!gxn.net!news5-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news6-win.server.ntlworld.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: stumo@bigfoot.com (Stuart Moore) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: archive Message-ID: <3b209e73.718717@news.ntlworld.com> References: <2001.158.80561.1428257@205.198.93.196> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Lines: 40 Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 09:45:24 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.253.88.58 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: news6-win.server.ntlworld.com 991993526 62.253.88.58 (Fri, 08 Jun 2001 10:45:26 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 10:45:26 BST Organization: ntlworld News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:6040 On Fri, 08 Jun 2001 04:53:08 GMT, Faux_Pseudo@24.177.56.253 (Faux_Pseudo) enlightened us with: > --(Once apon a time, in alt.ascii-art,)-- > --(Eli the Bearded said it like only they can.)-- > > In alt.ascii-art, R L Samuell wrote: > > > gopher://samuell.com/ > > > > Wow, don't see gopher links much these days. I don't think IE can > > even handle them. (Netscape chugs along fine.) > > > > And I like the animations archive -- I haven't found a decent source > > for those (that works) in a lot of Google-ing. Lots of broken links > > from old FAQs is the best I could do. > > > > Here's a viewer for them, since 'cat' is way too fast on my system: > > > > perl -MTime::HiRes=sleep -wpe 'sleep 0.02' FILE > > > > Adjust sleep speed to taste (but the hi-res sleep is really important, > > fetch the module for perl from www.cpan.org if you don't have it). > > > > Elijah > > ------ > > delighted > > lynx dose gopher just fine. After all who needs a GUI browser anyway > dose any one know of a way to do the above perl script without going > and downloading the Time::HiRes mod? >From what I can remember, there's a built in call that can do pauses of less than a function - it's mentioned under sleep in my documentation. From what I can remember it's some kind of file open call. Stuart -- o |\ _[] L_ === Stuart Moore []\, stm