[Remind-Fans] "blow a horn and flash a message on the screen" -X

[david cuthbertson]

Hi,

I am looking for a linux console terminal "blow a horn
and flash a message on the screen" X-less solution.

After days of studying the man page, the forum
archives, and lots and lots of googling, the only
examples I found are for (g)xmessage, ie,
http://lists.whatexit.org/mailman/private/remind-fans/2007/001320.html,
http://www.groupsrv.com/linux/about33819.html, which
work fine on my ubuntu desktop. However my ultra
portable asus eee only has a minimal debian sarge
install, plus just a few cli apps; without x-window
bloat it now boots in just 17 seconds.

But no feasible solutions so far. I am relatively new
to bash, vim, screen, etc, but am willing to learn.

I recently discovered remind because of my attention
deficit disorder. Exploring gtd on the command line,
led me to discover the joys of its seemingly
limitless, mind-boggling possibilities; hours and
hours of time wasting fun exploring its potential to
help me get things done. Gosh. Wow.

Help?

David


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