Lusercop wrote: > > See also: http://dotat.at/prog/misc/spinner.c
Nifty. However, the window change thing doesn't seem to work when the job is started in the background as 'spinner &' (neither on the OpenBSD system I ssh in to nor in a couple of Linux systems I tried from there), and starting it in the foreground rather precludes useful work. (Though explicitly activating it when I know I won't be typing for the next little bit works, but it requires remembering beforehand, and it means I can't use it to keep the connection open while some little program crunches data without any output for a while.) Still, nifty. And except for the window resizing, seems to work fine in the background. Many thanks for bringing that to my attention! Cheers, Philip [email copies appreciated, since I read the digest] -- Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
