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From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.games.rogue
Subject: Spouse- and boss-friendly feature for rogue
Message-ID: <172@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Oct-83 09:29:03 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 13 09:29:03 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Oct-83 09:01:58 EDT
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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Here's a proposed enhancement to rogue that would probably save a few
marriages and make a lot of bosses happier:  how about adding a clock
that unobtrusively displays the time of day in one corner of the screen?
Vnews, another piece of viceware on our system, has this feature and
even if it doesn't prevent us news junkies from wasting time, it at least
helps to make us feel guilty about it.

For that matter, how about a general-purpose process that sits between
the terminal and the system, reducing a 24-line terminal to a 23-line
window plus a single user-definable status line containing goodies like
the time-of-day, system name, current working directory, or whatever
else can be packed into 80 characters?

Always happy to suggest work for other people to do...

                                 -- Prentiss Riddle
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