brian@haddock.ima.isc.com (Brian Holt) (02/08/90)
Just came up with a nifty hack while playing around with R4. I had a long make running, so I put the xterm into tiny mode (good old 1x2 font...). Then I realized that I couldn't tell the difference between the make being done, and some compile taking a long time without straining my eyes, so I typed '/usr/5bin/banner done' at the xterm. Well, got to wondering what bsd banner would look like, so I created another xterm, put it in tiny mode and ran the real banner in it. Grew the window to be 132 (tiny) columns wide, and the height of the screen, put the xterm into no-jump-scroll mode, and cons'ed up a script to take standard input and call banner on what it read. The result is a rather demented ticker-tape display. It gobbles up cycles, too... Anyone have any ideas how to make it horizontal? Grin. =brian -- brian@ima.isc.com US 617-661-7474 x206 near the Charles River
leres@surf.ee.lbl.gov (Craig Leres) (02/09/90)
> The result is a rather demented ticker-tape display. It gobbles > up cycles, too... Precisely why we still run X10R4 (although I hear that X11R4 is faster on Suns that previous X11 revs). Anyway, when you're used to getting 215K baud (on a Sparcstation), it's kind of difficult to get used to the inferior performnace of X11. Craig P.S. We just checked and we get 342K baud when using the nil2 font...