Subject: Re: Animated prompt?
To: None <books@medianet.pl>
From: Stefan 'Kaishakunin' Schumacher <stefan@net-tex.de>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/08/2007 17:16:20
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Also sprach Centrum Monitorowania Rzeczywistosci (pmatusz@elartnet.pl)
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> Is there such trick, or could anyone think of reasonable solution for=20
> animated shell prompt?=20
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> I mean something like twirling baton -/|\-/|\... somewhere,=20
> indicating that system is alive (and possibly, roughly, how much=20
> loaded it is), or time display along with standard=20
> "user@machine:path$", or even kind of animated ASCII art (which could=20
> be a hint as for possible solution - at least for terminals capable=20
> of such feature).
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> Happy hacking! Anyone?.. ;)

Well, there is progress(1) to produce a progressbar. Useful if you tar
or dump sth. and to see if if the program hangs. But this has nothing
to do with a prompt, though.

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