man1/Xmsg4

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Name

Xmsg4 - small patience request display window

Synopsis

Xmsg4 <arg>

Description

This is an Xwindows program which gives a small window to display a two line message about being patient. The first line of the message is <arg> and is printed in red. The second line of the message is "please wait for it to complete" and is printed in green.

Usually this program is called from shell script which need to tell the user to wait for something. The shell script issues a kill(1) command when it is finished with the window.

Arguments

arg
The contents of the first line of the message.

Notes

The size of the window is hardcoded.

Examples

Xmsg4 "the system has melted down"

Manual Page Revision

$Id: Xmsg4.1,v 1.1 2000/09/11 21:11:54 kitchen Exp $


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