From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 78eeade7 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2020 21:49:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id EAB039CCAB; Fri, 7 Feb 2020 07:49:09 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 124C09CCAD; Fri, 7 Feb 2020 07:48:42 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 2429E9CCA4; Fri, 7 Feb 2020 07:48:39 +1000 (AEST) Received: from neener.bl.org (neener.bl.org [50.116.26.109]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B31E89CCA3 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 2020 07:48:38 +1000 (AEST) Received: from neener.bl.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by neener.bl.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id 016Lmc7a017526 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2020 15:48:38 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (mparson@localhost) by neener.bl.org (8.15.2/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id 016LmbTd025406 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2020 15:48:38 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: neener.bl.org: mparson owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 15:48:37 -0600 (CST) From: Michael Parson To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <9c507ef665851fd21ecdf0e23136dc86@firemail.de> <1ippPk-8PE-00@marmaro.de> <1iqMuL-1zK-00@marmaro.de> <20200204094018.661e76717f7f475e6cb53e75@sjmulder.nl> <20200204201453.ebeaabon26vbgfle@localhost.localdomain> <202002050845.0158jDOu024559@freefriends.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (NEB 202 2017-01-01) X-Marks-The-Spot: --->X MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (neener.bl.org [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 06 Feb 2020 15:48:38 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: [TUHS] pronouncing *nix formulas (was: screen editors) X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On Fri, 7 Feb 2020, Dave Horsfall wrote: > On Wed, 5 Feb 2020, Dan Cross wrote: > >> Perhaps I've sent this story to TUHS before, but I can't resist.  >> "finger: the most inappropriately named command in computerdom" (no, >> that's not a challenge...). > > [ Hilarious story ] > > Back in ye olde Usenet days, someone had an animated .plan which was > all about the "Andalusian snail" (the "@" character was the snail). > It used ANSI escape sequences, showing it in the 25th line (the > "status" line), and was quite funny. > > Of course, you had to have the right speed; too fast, and it just > zipped past, and too slow, well, it, just crawled along :-) ISTR that > 9600 was about right. > > Anyone remember that? I loved ascii animations back the day, collected a bunch of them, including the one about the Andalusion Video Snail @/ http://bl.org/~mparson/ascii-anim/ There's a perl script in there for 'slowcat' to print them out slower. -- Michael Parson Pflugerville, TX KF5LGQ