Re: DISPLAY Time in a 4GL program

Posted in 1997

Rudy Fernandes — Sun, 20 Apr 97 12:06:33 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <33576BE9.EE8@bekaert.com>, Guy Germonpre <germonpre_guy/dis@bekaert.com> wrote: >Hi, > >I wish to have a display of the current time in a 4GL program. This time >should be updated every minute, wether in input or not. >Anyone did this before ? > >TIA > >Guy Our VT100 terminals are able to display strings on their status line. e.g echo "\\033[<0i string \\033[<1i" > /dev/ttyxx will display "string" on the status line of ttyxx. We use this facility to inform users that a message (4GL sub-system) from another user has just arrived. I wonder if its worthwhile exploiting this (using cron, w, etc.) to update various status lines with the `date` every few minutes. ---------------------- Rudy Fernandes GIC, Kuwait OL 7.20, 4Gl 6.04 ----------------------