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From: pjl@ms.uky.edu (Paul Linton)
Newsgroups: alt.sources
Subject: Re: .plan
Summary: There is a program called  'dotplan' that I know of that
	 can create small one line 'graphics'
Message-ID: <12680@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 14 Sep 89 16:48:11 GMT
References: <52@towernet.UUCP> <00000@starsend.UUPC> <32114@cornell.UUCP>
Organization: University of Kentucky
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In article <32114@cornell.UUCP>, stodghil@sjofn.cs.cornell.edu (Paul Stodghill) writes:
> In article <00000@starsend.UUPC> floyd@starsend.UUCP writes:
> >The contents of such "active" text files probably contains control
> >characters (probably ANSI) to manipulate the terminal.  I once had
> >a file that when output to a VT100 terminal would draw a picture of
> Since no one else has mentioned it...
> Escape sequences in .plan files may not be a good idea. For example, some
> VT100 excape sequences will hang a VT52. I'm sure that they do unpleasant
> things to other terminals as well. The non-Unix mail and news systems that
> 						-- Paul

As I remember there was a program called dotplan which had some different
formats to store the output so that it did different things.  All of the
formats used ^H so that it was terminal independent.  Some were simply
to move the line back and forth, or scroll different ways, you really
had to see it.  It was interesting. 

I forgot where it was posted, sorry.

paul
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