Yes, thanks David, 'watch -n1 date' worked fine for me. George Karaolides 8, Costakis Pantelides St., tel: +35 79 68 08 86 Strovolos, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicosia CY 2057, web: www.karaolides.com Republic of Cyprus
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, David Z Maze wrote: > George Karaolides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > GK> Is there a clock application that can be used to show system time in a > GK> character-mode terminal? There seem to be any number of them that can be > GK> used under X, but I can't find any that can be used in character mode. > > For something quick, cheap, and easy, try 'watch -n1 date'. My memory > of using screen on a VT320 plugged into a serial port suggests that > screen would also display the current time on the hardware modeline if > it could be convinced that such existed, but this is kind of a fuzzy > memory, and I'm not sure if you could (or would want to) emulate the > modeline in an xterm/Linux virtual console. > > -- > David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ > "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." > -- Abra Mitchell > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
