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Date:	Sun, 23 Dec 2001 08:45:43 PST7
From:	dallas_acm <legan@acm.org >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: more info on WarpCenter display

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> Message: B0000089931.MSG # in packet :#35.
> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 21:24:06 PST7
> From: Peter Skye
> To: scoug-help@scoug.com
> Subject: SCOUG-Help: more info on WarpCenter display
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>
> J. R. Fox wrote:
> >
> > So exactly how does Dallas' setup accomplish this ?
>
> He wouldn't tell me. He came in here carrying some sort of voodoo wand
> and a small leather pouch that he said was his "gris-gris", and when he
> left the thing was working. I'm not sure I want to know.
>
> Okay, let me try _this_ story. ........

Hey, I kind of dug that one.
Ready to spin up my "Bitch's Brew" cd, while reading some
Poe or Lovecraft. :-)

> ......... PULSE.EXE comes with Warp. Somewhere or
> other Dallas found out about two command line parameters you can specify

Fumble around with the 'Help' option on the full sized display mode.

> (they aren't in the online documentation) that give you just the graph

At least with the version that came with mine.

'SMOOTH' and 'FILLED' are two other options listed in the
built in help info.

> and the title bar ("nomenu noicon"). You start PULSE with these two
> parameters, resize the window so it fits on the WarpCenter, then grab
> the thing's title bar and shove it up as high as possible so the title
> bar only has a visible height of one pixel. Voila! Or Gris-Gris! I
> made a program object containing these two parameters, then shadowed it
> to the WarpCenter Tool Bar so I can pop the cpu graph back up if
> WarpCenter tromps on top of it.
>
> - Peter

I clain no credit for this.
All I did was search around in the 'HELP' information one
day, I think I was inspired by stumbling onto the
'compact' mode for the CD-Player.
You use get by with a piece of software for a while,
every so often it's worth while to look over whatever
documentation it has (or contains) and maybe you are
prepared to understand what *all* of it means at this point.

What would be really cool, would be if you could do
this for command line sessions.
Sure it would be unreadable, but you could notice if
anything was going on (finally happening?)
in the session while doing something else.
An example would be PPP.exe.
Maybe someone else has seen such a thing somewhere?

Regards,
Dallas E. Legan II / leganii@surfree.com / dallasii@kincyb.com

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