From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 29 9:41:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from firebat.bushong.net (c128625-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com [24.176.225.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AFC037B400; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 09:40:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dbushong@localhost) by firebat.bushong.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f0THeAb68772; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 09:40:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dbushong) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 09:40:09 -0800 From: David Bushong To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: "Justin W. Pauler" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tail Message-ID: <20010129094009.F16505@bushong.net> References: <01012813255100.83352@gateway.drnet.fais.net> <20010128221801.A2923@raggedclown.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010128221801.A2923@raggedclown.net>; from cliff@raggedclown.net on Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 10:18:01PM +0100 X-Floating-Sheep-Port: 0xbaa Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 10:18:01PM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > ... > > However, on Linux there is a program called "watch" that repeatedly > executes a command an displays it on the screen updating the > display "in place" .. so it does not scroll away. I am sure there > must be a similar program on BSD (I would like to know as well!) > but the program named "watch" on FBSD is something > different. > > Cliff > > On BSD, the similar program is called "display" and is in /usr/ports/misc/display Note that it installs /usr/local/bin/display, which is the same name as one of the binaries from the ImageMagick package. I have reported this as a bug to both port maintainers in the past and been ignored, and thus renamed this one to "redisplay". --David Bushong To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message