Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 16:20:03 -0500 From: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com> Subject: Re: ping from fvwm2 menu Message-ID: <199811212122.QAA10367@laker.net>
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On Sat, 21 Nov 1998 19:52:41 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote:
>Why not write a script which does it the ping and then pauses until
>you press Enter? Something like:
>
>+ "ping dukkha" Exec xterm -n "dukkha" -T "ping dukkha" -e myping
>
>myping would then be:
>
>#!/bin/sh
>ping -c 5 dukkha
>read confirmation
And "read confirmation can be as simple as:
#include <stdio.h>
main()
{
getchar();
}
You can compile it with:
cc pause.c -o pause
and then place pause somewhere along the path. I add
/usr/local/friedrich to the path, to keep my stuff seperate from
/usr/local (which isn't at all local...)
So Greg's script becomes:
ping -c 5 dukkha
pause
Note that there is no message output from my pause command, but you
could easily add one with printf or puts. This would be a good exercise
for C newbies...
HTH, and good luck...
Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes.
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