dave@galaxia.Newport.RI.US (David H. Brierley) (09/15/89)
In article <4531@orca.WV.TEK.COM> garyc@quasi.tek.com (Gary Combs;685-2072;60-720;;tekecs) writes: > >If your display understands ansi commands, you could append your .plan with >cursor movement and character insert commands. Hey, this is a wonderful idea!! Lets have everybody put all sorts of ansi escape sequences into their .plan files so that they can draw cute little animated pictures on their screens. Maybe someone could post a copy of the xmas tree with the little train going around. Of course, you need to make sure you lock your office door whenver someone who has an HP terminal, or a Zenith terminal, or any other non-ansi terminal runs the finger command and it mangles the settings on their terminal beyond recognition. (if you can't see the sarcasm dripping off of this, a cute little smiley is not going to help) On all of the systems that I administor, I have changed the finger command so that it catches any control characters in the .plan and prints them out using the "caret" notation that vi (and other programs) uses. I think that at least some versions of 4.3BSD have a similar change to the finger program. At least, our More/BSD systems (which are supposed to contain most of the stuff from 4.3-tahoe) use the same type of mechanism when processing the .plan file and I think they do the same for the .project file. Aside from the annoyance factor resulting from sending control sequences that were intended for one type of terminal to a different type of terminal, the unrestricted use of control sequences in the .plan file is major security hole. If there are any systems out there that that are running an old finger program that still allows control characters in the .plan file I strongly recommend that you make the appropriate changes the your finger program. If you do not know exactly wha to change, send me mail and I will tell you. If you do not have source code, I think the finger program was released as part of the freely redistributable code and should be available from a number of places. -- David H. Brierley Home: dave@galaxia.Newport.RI.US {rayssd,xanth,lazlo,mirror,att}!galaxia!dave Work: dhb@rayssd.ray.com {sun,uunet,gatech,necntc,ukma}!rayssd!dhb
otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) (09/18/89)
In article <27435@abbott.mips.COM> blanier@mips.COM (Brian Lanier) writes: In article <52@towernet.UUCP> larrym@rigel.uucp (24121-E R Inghrim(3786)556) writes: >I have seen different .plan files with stick figures jumping >around, "beeps," and other keen-neato-groovy stuff. >Can anyone tell me how to create an active .plan file >like those? Please e-mail. THANKS!!! > >lm Me Too! Well... quite a long time ago, the program ANSIDRAW was popular on BBS's. I could post the PC version to ANSIDRAW, but I'd be suprised if anyone was intersted... email to me direct if you want it... However, it only produces still pictures using ANSI sequences. One could of course add several of these one-after-another, but it wouldn't be the same. I believe that a "ANSI draw program" using curses would be optimal. Anyone ever seen one ? -- * * * Otto J. Makela (otto@jyu.fi, MAKELA_OTTO_@FINJYU.BITNET) * * * * * * * * Phone: +358 41 613 847, BBS: +358 41 211 562 (CCITT, Bell 2400/1200/300) * * Mail: Kauppakatu 1 B 18, SF-40100 Jyvaskyla, Finland, EUROPE * * * * freopen("/dev/null","r",stdflame); * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
wiml@blake.acs.washington.edu (William Lewis) (09/20/89)
In article <OTTO.89Sep18165925@tukki.jyu.fi> otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) writes: |Well... quite a long time ago, the program ANSIDRAW was popular on BBS's. |I could post the PC version to ANSIDRAW, but I'd be suprised if anyone was |intersted... email to me direct if you want it... | |However, it only produces still pictures using ANSI sequences. One could |of course add several of these one-after-another, but it wouldn't be the |same. I believe that a "ANSI draw program" using curses would be optimal. Well, there's the program TheDraw (probably a derivative of Ansidraw) by TheSoft (it's share-ware); it's designed for making animated ANSI drawings. Current version is 3.2.0 I think. Very versatile. --- phelliax -- wiml@blake.acs.washington.edu (206)526-5885 Seattle, Washington
jim@jose.uucp (Jim) (09/21/89)
Otto J. Makela writes: > Well... quite a long time ago, the program ANSIDRAW was popular on BBS's. > However, it only produces still pictures using ANSI sequences. One could > of course add several of these one-after-another, but it wouldn't be the > same. I believe that a "ANSI draw program" using curses would be optimal. > Anyone ever seen one ? Yes, there is a program that makes MOVING ansi. I believe the program is called ansi animator. The first version was either shareware or pd, and the following versions were made availaible ONLY to those that paid for the first (as I understand). I have it availaible on my bbs. As I have never transfered a file through unix mail, if someone wants it, and will help me figure out how to get it across, I will be glad to do it. Is there a program out there that will let me do mail from my pc, or do I have to figure out how to get it from my pc to this unix box, and then across the mail lines??? (I've been trying to find a uucp for the pc for a long time, but it seems that no one out there knows anything about it.)