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- Timer - Copyright 1989, by John L. Williams
- Timer may be FREELY distributed, as long as it is
- without any charge and provided this documentation
- accompanies it.
-
-
- This program was written in:
-
- Multi-Forth
- (Copyright by Creative Solutions, Inc.)
-
-
- Timer is a simple timing loop which temporarily replaces your
- prompt with the number of seconds (down to 1/1000 sec.) required
- to perform each command you enter. It does this by running your
- command as a separate task, watching over that task and measuring
- how long it took to complete.
-
- Format:
-
- Timer [?] (Timer ? - Provides somewhat useless info about Timer)
-
- To start Timer, all you have to do is enter Timer (and Return).
- In order to quit Timer, all you need to do is enter Timer (and
- Return), again.
-
-
- Notes:
-
- Virtually all programs, I have tried, work just as they normally
- do while Timer is running. The exceptions seem to be those
- programs which cannot be run from a background (such as
- DiskDoctor).
-
- The Multi-Forth implementation which I am using (Ver 1.3), does
- not allow the use of one of the improtant new AmigaDOS 1.3
- features:
-
- Alias seems to have disappeared, but it really hasn't. The
- reason for this is that Alias is task specific and therefore
- is totally un-initialized when the Timer task runs.
- (Therefore, if you use Alias as a short-cut to some of your
- commands, those aliai (?) will not work! - use the original
- and complete paths!)
-
- Also, because Timer runs your commands as separate tasks, ^C
- and ^D do not function the way you may be used to having
- them work. In order to interrupt, or cancel, a command that
- is being timed, you must use the Break command from another
- shell.
-
- Enjoy!!!
-
- John L. Williams
- 11970 Montana Ave. #112
- Los Angeles, CA 90049
-
- (213) 820-8408
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-