[csw-users] watch?

[David Blank-Edelman]

On Mar 20, 2007, at 10:18 AM, Luke Scharf wrote:

> BTW, there is a fair bit of stuff in this package, including top,  
> w, uptime and some low-level system utilities:

Just FYI: there are a number of programs that do the same thing that  
aren't nearly as wrapped up in a specific OS (and hence require  
porting). The first time I ever encountered this particular idea was  
with the "display" program posted to comp.unix.sources/mod.sources  
back in the days of yore:

http://groups.google.com/group/mod.sources/browse_thread/thread/ 
1cf184d7e530273e/931bd812fe26dc85?lnk=st&q=display+vixie 
+mod.sources&rnum=2&hl=en#931bd812fe26dc85

Patch to it here:

http://groups.google.com/group/net.sources.bugs/browse_thread/thread/ 
d278ac77d5defd02/eab4dc78a45bdd10?lnk=st&q=display+vixie 
+mod.sources&rnum=1&hl=en#eab4dc78a45bdd10

There's vis: http://examples.oreilly.de/english_examples/upt3/split/ 
vis/vis/

And I know there is at least one Perl implementation (a student of  
mine wrote it), probably several.

         -- dNb

P.S. Speaking about old timey programs to do cool things, have you  
seen iselect? http://www.ossp.org/pkg/tool/iselect/ .