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From: kurt@hi.UUCP (Kurt Zeilenga)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Any way to implement "Boss is coming" program?
Message-ID: <14087@hi.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Aug-87 17:28:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: hi.14087
Posted: Tue Aug 25 17:28:28 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 27-Aug-87 02:19:16 EDT
References: <234@mv04.ecf.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: kurt@hi.UUCP (Kurt Zeilenga)
Organization: U. of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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Keywords: screen swapping at lightning rates

In article <234@mv04.ecf.toronto.edu> ctfg@ecf.toronto.edu (Caspar the Friendly Ghost) writes:
>I would like to be able, with as few key strokes and as much speed
>as possible, to blank the screen of the current job, and replace it
>with something looking more like official "work".

Programable function keys could be used.  Then have suitable program
waiting in backgound (so it just has to swap it in) and then the
function key could do a "^Z%-^M" (w/ csh).

Now, if you really wanted to get fancy you could write a C program
to do this faster and without the need of function keys.

FYI, my employer allows me to read news, so I have no need for
doing any of this.