Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!sharkey!itivax!dhw
From: dhw@itivax.iti.org (David H. West)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: .plan
Message-ID: <3708@itivax.iti.org>
Date: 14 Sep 89 13:50:22 GMT
References: <52@towernet.UUCP> <00000@starsend.UUPC>
Reply-To: dhw@itivax.UUCP (David H. West)
Organization: The Forgotten Legions of ... um ... er ...
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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
]a Christmas tree and toy train.  The lights on the tree would blink
]and the train would ride around the tree a couple of times before
]the end of the file.

The question is, is there PD software to assist in assembling the
escape sequences?  Or is it done by redirecting Curses output
somehow?