Unix xmas tree

Rene' Seindal seindal at sleipner.diku.dk
Mon Jan 2 03:48:56 AEST 1989


gupta at uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:

> I received this "cute" file last week and when you do a 'cat' or 'more' on
> it then it'll draw a christmas tree and a train circling it. It only works
> on vt100s and I've been trying to figure out how it works. Anyone familiar
> with this?

I peeked at it, and found out that it replies heavily on an alternate
character set, which makes it impossible to convert it to other terminals
without a similar alternate character set.  It would have looked great in
motd, though :-)

Rene' Seindal (seindal at diku.dk).



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