From: "Laura Eaves" <leaves1@carolina.rr.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: timer
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:46:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <009801c4ffd0$6e4802b0$6601a8c0@geekspeak> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0501210930440.7620@maranatha.cah>
Hi Cheryl --
Have you considered writing a little C program to use the SIGALRM signal to
periodically display the time?
This isn't hard and could display the time in smaller increments if you
want. (Actually I'm not sure.)
But you would need to choose how you want to display the info -- perhaps
just using printf?
The program would be quite small and faster than invoking commands from the
shell. It all would be done in one process.
Anyway, just a thought.
Have fun.
--le
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cheryl Homiak" <chomiak@charter.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 10:34 AM
Subject: RE: timer
The problem with just using sleep is that I want a continuous display of
the time going by, not just an alarm at the end of the time.
But yes, when I get it figured out, I will write a script.
Thanks.
--
Cheryl
"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
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