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From: markha@microsoft.UUCP (Mark HAHN)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Changing title bar in Full Screen OS2
Summary: you have to modify oso001.msg
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Date: 1 Aug 90 04:58:44 GMT
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Reply-To: markha@microsoft.UUCP (Mark HAHN)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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keating@rex.cs.tulane.edu (John Keating ) writes:
>	I've been thinking about the feasability of changing the title bar
>that appears at the head of each os2 full screen window...  Basically, what I'm
>looking for is a program that will change it to a clock (or add one to it...)
>	Are there any programs already out there that will do this?

the help bar at the top of cmd windows is activated 
when $i appearing in the $prompt environment variable.
it's printed by cmd.exe whenever the prompt is printed.
the message itself comes from oso001.msg, but the color
seems to be fixed (I didn't check this detail.)
thus, if you have the wherewithal (the mkmsgf tool)
you could change the string, or even edit oso001.msg directly.

alternatively, you could write a little daemon that does nothing
but constantly update a clock display.  it ought to be clever
enough not to update the display when its session is not foreground.
it would also be clever to have just one process do the timekeeping,
so you don't have an avalanche of events when the new minute happend.
I can't think of anything bombproof to handle the case 
when some other process overwrites the clock (like an editor).

regards,
-- 
Mark Hahn         microsoft!markha@uunet.uu.net         uunet!microsoft!markha
YES, Bill Gates IS my personal savior, and I CHANNEL for him in CLEAR WEATHER.