Re: Beep when the screen changes

["Gary Kuznitz" <docfxit@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe someone with VB would like a little fun project.  Maybe they have 
wasted as much time as I have watching the screen during upgrades.  I 
would think it would be a pretty small program to watch for maybe a key 
on the keyboard to toggle turning on and off the wake up feature.  When 
it's turned on if there is any change in the screen buffer it should run a 
bat file once.  I can show everyone how to handle the rest.

Thanks,

Gary Kuznitz

> At 01:07 PM 11/23/1999 -0800, you wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >Has anyone discovered a program to run on a PC during an
> >upgrade/PTF/long AS/400 program run that would beep (and send a
> >message to a pager) (or at least be able to run a program) when the 
screen
> >changes for any reason.  I've found (for lots of years) it's a waste of
> >time to sit and stair at a screen waiting for the enter key to be hit
> >during an installation of OS/400.  It would of course be nice for IBM 
to
> >incorporate this function into the upgrade process but I guess they must
> >like to sit for hours and watch the screen.  I would really like to find a
> >simple PC program that could play a wave file and call a program so I
> >could have it send a message to a pager if I wasn't right in front of the
> >PC.  I know sending a numeric message to a pager can be done in a 
simple
> >BAT file.
> 
> I don't think that you are going to find what you want.  IBM has certain
> screen standards that they have to use by design.  They have added some
> better support in recent releases as to give you a clue where you are, 
such
> as the ugly status bars added in V4R2.  (Later to be made pretty at my
> urging for V4R4.)
> 
> Al
> 

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