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Floyd Miller floyd at starsend.UUPC
Thu Sep 14 09:24:19 AEST 1989


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.

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