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From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer)
Subject: Re: contool 3.3A patched for FreeBSD
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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 19:55:08 UTC
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andreas@knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm) writes:

>In article <4cmepp$jds@news.scruz.net>,
>	Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> writes:
>>Well, as a quick-and-dirty, I have sort of reverse-engineered a
>>package for contool. It can be fetched from
>>ftp://ftp.kfu.com/pub/contool-3.3a-pkg.tgz

>What is the purpose of contool ? brush your teeth, ... , *sigh*
>That's all I want to know.

contool is an openlook console tool. It replaces xterm -C. It adds
the ability to filter console messages and take different action
on different messages (ignore some, deiconify on others, blink the
icon, ring a bell, run a command, etc). The package has dependencies
on xview-lib-3.2.1.

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