Time 1.1 [Announcement]

[Christian Rosentreter]

*Time 1.1*
Reports the elapsed time from beginning to end of a program.

Introduction
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Time is a reentrant command line utility that will run any other
program and record the elapsed time used by that program.

Requirements
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- MorphOS 1.4 or better

Template
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COMMAND/A/F

COMMAND/A/F - The command line to be executed. Supports arguments
and redirections.

Usage Examples
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o Measure running time of a Copy process, e.g. to determine disk
speed (divide result by the filesize to get 'Bytes per
Second').

> Time Copy Foobar:hugefile Work:
Time Elapsed: 33.2690s

o Measure running time of a command and redirect output of that
program:

> Time "List ALL >ram:filelist.txt"
Time Elapsed: 3.3465s

o And redirect output of Time and the command (note the order
of the redirections in the command line):

> Time >ram:result.txt "List ALL >ram:filelist.txt"

Download
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The Time 1.1 archive can be downloaded from:
http://tokai.binaryriot.org/public

Time will also be included in the next MorphOS release.

regards,
--
Christian Rosentreter

MorphOS 2 ~ http://www.morphos-team.net/

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