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From: tom@ICASE.EDU (Tom Crockett)
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Subject: Re: alarm clock client? / splitting up comp.windows.x
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Date: 26 Jun 89 12:01:06 GMT
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> *Excerpts from xpert: 23-Jun-89 alarm clock client? / spli.. Peter*
> *Morreale@AMES.ARC. (884)*

> Does anyone know of a "alarm" clock client available for X?  I would
> find such a tool very useful.   Something which a user could set and
> have it pop up a window with a user defined message.


The Andrew "console" program provides this capability, along with other handy
features, like mail and print queue monitoring (to name just a couple).

You can find Andrew on the X11R3 contrib tape under contrib/toolkits/andrew.

Tom Crockett

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