These are VT100 Animation files, which are meant to be thrown up raw
at a VT100-compatible terminal. ANSI-ready terminals should do fine,
although the ideal venue is a Digital Equipment Corporation VT100
Terminal connected at 9600 baud. Many of these animations will fly by
at modern speeds, when they were meant to move much slower. The files
themselves are simply text with cursor movement instructions, deleting
and erasing the characters necessary to appear animated. Usually,
they represent a long hand-crafted process done by a single person to
tell a story. Some of these files may date back to the 1960's and
1970's.
Also in this directory there is a small Perl script named `scat', which
you can use to slow down the output on fast terminals.
