Rhodium has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi all,
Ok, I created my neat little command line widget. Now I want to give some representation that the tool is working. Initially, I started with a "." that repeated across the screen.. This was lame but worked. The problem was when I filled up the screen with dots I couldn't tell if it was still running or did it die. I once saw that someone did a pretty slick pattern that was repeated ontop of each other (.oO.oO.oO). My question is how did they do that, or how can I mimic this on my screen. Is there a better way?
Thanks for your help!
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Re: Showing that a command line file is running..
by Fletch (Bishop) on Apr 01, 2002 at 19:42 UTC