Re: Crawling info displays and slide shows

vinay@eit.com (Vinay Kumar)
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 93 10:00:25 PDT
From: vinay@eit.com (Vinay Kumar)
Message-id: <9309301700.AA00652@eit.COM>
To: henrich@rs560.cl.msu.edu
Subject: Re: Crawling info displays and slide shows 
Cc: WIGGINS@msu.edu, www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch

From this msg. it looks like to me that what you want is what i had 
released about a month ago ( a real beta version). It's called "ss"
or "slideshow" and it does exactly what is mentioned in couple of places
in this email. "ss" can be ftp'ed from:

		eitech.eit.com (192.100.58.2)
under:
	~ftp/pub/share/ss.tar.Z

The distribution also contains a README ( also available at:
			http://www.eit.com/software/ss.html )


--
  Vinay Kumar
vinay@collage.eit.com


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> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 93 18:44:14 -0500
> From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
> To: sanders@bsdi.com
> Cc: Charles Henrich <henrich@rs560.cl.msu.edu>, Rich Wiggins <WIGGINS@msu.edu>,
>         www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
> Subject: Re: Crawling info displays and slide shows 
> 
> Tony Sanders writes:
> > > want is a general way to "play" this sort of program to any readers
> > > who want to click on the relevant start button.
> > Define a new Content-type: (e.g., www/slideshow)
> 
> Ack!  application/x-www-slideshow
> 
> > Something along these lines would be a start.  This steals a bit from
> > /bin/sh syntax.  You could *almost* do this today with xmosaic :-)
> > 
> >     .mailcap:   www/slideshow; /usr/local/bin/mosaic-slideshow %s
> 
> That would work today, if mosaic-slideshow were smart enough to fire
> off a Mosaic session (or find your running one) and send appropriate
> signals.  Of course, you could also use application/x-csh (see
> previous msg from me this afternoon) and just use a standard shell
> script with echos, kills, and sleeps.
> 
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> BTW, I'm going to adopt somebody's (Charles's?) idea and have Mosaic *
> write its pid into $HOME/.mosaic.pid upon startup to make this all   *
> easier to pull off.                                                  *
> **********************************************************************
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> 
> >     .mailcap:   www/slideshow; mosaic-internal-reference
> 
> That would work only if/when we build slideshow capabilities into
> Mosaic, which may happen (I'd love to see it) but which would require
> someone to write a solid spec for this sort of thing...
> 
> Cheers,
> Marc
> 
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