shelltimer

Short:        CLI based stopwatch program
Author:       johnl@crash/cts/com (John Lindwall)
Uploader:     br103 city ac uk (Nick Ridley)
Type:         os20/cli
Architecture: m68k-amigaos

Quick Description
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ShellTimer is a multitasking-friendly shell-based stopwatch program.  It is
useful  when  you need to measure the amount of time taken by an operation.
With this simple shell command you can start a timer and later stop it; the
elapsed time will be displayed.

ShellTimer  can  be  useful  to  time  compile/link operations, renderings,
program  executions,  script  files,  etc.   Since  it  is shell-based, the
command  can  be  invoked  from  AmigaDOS  scripts, from Arexx macros, from
makefiles, or interactively.

ShellTimer does not run from WorkBench.

The  ShellTimer  system  (which  includes the programs ShellTimerDaemon and
ShellTimer)  is  released  into  the  Public  Domain  by  the  author, John
Lindwall.   I  ask  that  the  archive be kept intact with the docs and the
source  code.   Bug  reports should be sent to me at johnl@crash.cts.com or
the address above.

Source  code is included.  The compiler I use is SAS/C 5.10b.  My editor is
TurboText.  My machine is an A1000 with 2.75MB RAM and an 80 MB hard disk.


Requirements
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ShellTimer  and  ShellTimerDaemon require AmigaDOS 2.04.  The programs make
use  of  features  specific  to  this  OS  version,  including  local shell
environment   variables,   ReadArgs(),   AllocVec(),  CreateMsgPort(),  and
System().

The  programs  could  be  modified  to  run under 1.3, but I don't have the
inclination.