hello, slashdot currently has a link to this ASCII animation: http://www.fortunecity.com/tatooine/lucas/339/page1.html you can find an elisp viewer for it at: http://cran.mit.edu/~ttn/build/adhoc/src/sja-play.el the "sja" means "simon jansen asciimation", since that is the name of the person who originated the data format, as well as the name of the data format. viva text! thi