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From: nene@u.washington.edu (Michael Stage)
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Subject: Talk: finger ssfiit@eris.cs.umb.edu
Date: 25 Aug 1994 09:50:30 -0500
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In article <33dm3c$rh9@gagme.wwa.com>,
Jason Zapman II <gt5076c@prism.gatech.edu> wrote:
>
>I think it is vry cool, but I wan't to know how in the heck he did it.  To
>my knowledge, there isn't a way to make a .plan except input.  there is a
>way to make them use binary, but...
>
>any help would be greatly appreciated.

 What he did was replace the newline (octal 012) character on some of the lines
with the carriage return (octal 015) character.  This causes the next line 
to be drawn over top of the preceding line, instead of one line down.
The result is an image-updating effect. Since it doesn't use the escape
character, it can be viewed from a remote machine.

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Michael Stage           "Bau"
nene@u.washington.edu    Soichiro-san