[CS-FSLUG] set awarning when finished?

[John Mark Clayton]

Have you looked at Growl for Windows? It's probably a sledgehammer where a ball peen would do. One web site there is a list of applications that use growl for visual and audiable notifications. And it comes with a comand line tool, growlnotify, that can be called from batch/command files.  

Mark
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On Jun 17, 2011, at 14:52, davidm at hisfeet.net wrote:

> Before Windows existed (in DOS) I used to be able to tell the computer to
> ring a bell several times when it got done with a job.
> 
> I there some way to set windows so that when it finishes some lengthy job
> unsupervised it will give me an audible advisory that the job is finished?
> 
> I'm thinking of (for instance) a long download, or converting several
> different formats of short movies and making an iso out of it for a DVD.
> 
> These are jobs that take long enough.  I'd like to go get a cup of
> coffee,or take a bath, or eat, etc.  But it would be nice if the computer
> would inform me when it has done it's job.
> 
> A few programs have it built in (eg. K3B) but many don't.
> 
> any suggestions?
> 
> 
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