Timer for OS/2 V1.0 and Alarm for OS/2.
by Stu Mark. 9/8/95
You can get in touch with me at nyti: 914-368-2819.

Description:
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Timer:
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  Timer and Alarm are two simple OS/2 programs that serve as simple defer
the execution programs. I wrote them out of need, because I forget to
take the chicken out of the oven after two hours.
  The idea is, you start a timer, set it to go off in some amount of time
and it'll beep you when it's done, or you can have it run a program.

  The syntax for timer is: Timer [hh:][mm:]ss [programname [params]]

  Ex: Timer 2:30
  Result: The computer will beep after 2 minutes, 30 seconds. (see known bugs)

  Ex: Timer 1:2:30
  Result: The computer will beep after 1 hour, 2 minutes and 30 seconds.

  Ex: Timer 70
  Result: The computer will beep after 1 minutes and 10 seconds.

  Ex: Timer 10 pmseek.exe
  Result: The computer will run pmseek after 10 seconds. (must have .exe.)

  Ex: Timer 10 cmd.exe /C play file=wav.wav
  Result: The computer will play a wav file after 10 seconds. (must have
          /C to run something in a cmd shell.)

  I think you get the idea. Screw around with it to see what works.

Alarm:
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  Same idea as timer, but it trips at a certain time, as opposed to after
a duration.

  The syntax for alarm is: Alarm hh:mm[a|p] [programname [params]]

  Ex: Alarm 12:00a
  Result: The computer will beep at midnight.

  Ex: Alarm 12:00p
  Result: The computer will beep at noon.


Known Bugs:
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  Timer has a bug where it actually waits one second too long. You can test
this by doing Timer 1 and watching that it waits a second on 1 and then waits
a second on 0.
  I have no intention of fixing this, because if you're looking for an
accurate timepiece, buy an atomic clock. I hear they go for only $1000 now.

  Alarm has a problem, but I can't remember what it is. It's something real
stupid though, so don't worry about it.

Unknown Bugs:
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I don't know of any.

GNU:
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  I don't like the GNU people because one of them took my friend's program,
changed all the copyright info, and put it up under GNU licensing under his
own name. This is a poor example of the GNU concept, morals of some excuses
for people, and people who should not call themselves programmers.
  For this reason, I do not ship source. But I leave the debugging info in.


Endnote:
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  If you have any ideas of stuff to change, add, or whatever. Give nyti a
ring or email me at Stu Mark@nyti.uncnsrd.org


[Spindoctor] /-\|


Hi From Stu:
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Coalition to change the "Hello World" program to the "Hi From Stu" program, '95.

As a side note, the first time I ever played with the production release of
Windows 95, I crashed it in 38 seconds, and I hadn't started trying yet.

Oh Stu. OS/2. Hmmm.

OS/2 for a long time. (every time they say 'forever', it goes away real quick.
                       Anybody remember the Apple //c forever?)