You too can change your "working" icon

Tue Nov 22 04:48:23 AEST 1988

In article <464 at gonzo.UUCP> daveb at gonzo.UUCP (Dave Brower) writes:
>In article <402 at polyof.UUCP> john at polyof.UUCP ( John Buck ) writes:
>> [ ... ] the "AT&T Working" ICON that appears when your UNIX PC is
>>busy doing something....
>
>Which reminds me to ask, "what does it *mean*, anyway?"  Is it "I'm
>waiting for disk i/o" or "I have no idle time" or what?

The "working" icon appears when no process is currently reading from the
selected window.  You can demonstrate this by typing "sleep 5;read foo"
to the shell.  When the "read" is executed the icon will go away.
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