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   Eli the Bearded to All   
   slowcat and vt100 animations   
   23 Aug 20 00:59:37   
   
   XPost: alt.ascii-art.animation   
   From: *@eli.users.panix.com   
      
   Over in comp.sys.raspberry-pi a few days ago someone mentioned the   
   Andalusian Video Snail animation, but lamented he couldn't find it. I   
   found it, and a player called slowcat.c, but it didn't play right.   
      
   I've rewritten slowcat.c to be more effective at slowly cating files,   
   and am releasing it with a large collection of videos.   
      
   Code plus videos:   
   	https://github.com/Eli-the-Bearded/vt100-slowcat/   
      
   And blog post:   
   	https://qaz.wtf/qz/blosxom/2020/08/22/slowcat   
      
   You'll likely need a Unix like environment (Linux, Mac, maybe WSL) and a   
   vt100 emulating terminal. xterm on Linux, iterm2 on Mac, not sure for   
   WSL.   
      
   See videos/grox/snails.vt for that "nature" documentary mentioned above.   
      
   slowcat -b 9600 videos/grox/snails.vt   
      
   Several of the videos still have alt.ascii-art newsgroup headers from   
   the early 1990s.   
      
   Elijah   
   ------   
   pointers to other videos welcome   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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