Pipe Viewer, Bit-rate, ASCII Animations
Controlling bit-rate in a pipe
I needed a utility to control the speed (i.e., bit-rate) at which data is outputted from a file. One solution for this is the Pipe Viewer utility, which has a Guix package:
Pipe Viewer
It is designed to do a lot of other things as well, but it can be used simply to limit bit-rate of data through the program. For 2400 b/s:
or, e.g.,
some_program | pv -L 2400 -q | some_other_program
ASCII Animations
An entertaining application of this is reproducing old vt100 ASCII animations:
https://www.ibiblio.org/archive/2020/04/vt100-animations/
http://artscene.textfiles.com/vt100/
Alaskalinuxuser, 2021-09-13
I tried this out, and it is pretty entertaining! Not sure how "useful" it is, but definitely entertaining!