Quick Description
=================

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
============

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.

 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO METHOD CRC     STAMP          NAME
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[generic]                 4384    7056  62.1% -lh1- 86ff Feb  3  1992 ShellTimer
[generic]                 4696   11425  41.1% -lh1- 2d87 Feb  3  1992 ShellTimer.doc
[generic]                  404     835  48.4% -lh1- f0a0 Jan 19  1992 ShellTimer.info
[generic]                 2511    4008  62.6% -lh1- c431 Feb  3  1992 ShellTimerDaemon
[generic]                  403     835  48.3% -lh1- 0baa Jan 19  1992 ShellTimerDaemon.info
[generic]                 3274    8546  38.3% -lh1- 3f71 Feb  4  1992 ShellTimer.c
[generic]                  532     938  56.7% -lh1- 9980 Feb  4  1992 ShellTimer.h
[generic]                 3118    9408  33.1% -lh1- 0366 Feb  4  1992 ShellTimerDaemon.c
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 Total         8 files   19322   43051  44.9%            Mar 25  1994