toolwait-0.9 - Sun-compatible toolwait clone

This is a Sun-compatible implementation of "toolwait" for XView.  The binary
is for Linux and requires the XView shared library; you don't want to build a
static version or keep it on your system (1.2MB stripped!  What the heck are
they linking into it?)  The source should be compatible with any system for
which XView is available, although the Makefile may need tweaking for
individual systems (I didn't use an Imakefile because some systems don't have
the XView imake templates installed properly... and some, notably Sun's own,
don't have imake set up properly at all.)

"toolwait" starts an X client in the background, then waits for it to map a
window.  The idea is not merely to start the command in the background (like
the trivial shell-script version of "toolwait" distributed with Linux's XView
package), but also to reduce contention for CPU time and access to the X
server during session startup.  It seems to speed up my X startup
considerably, since I no longer have 10 clients all trying to start up
simultaneously...

The details are in the manpage provided both in source and preformatted.

I am releasing this into the public domain(*), since it's not really worth any
kind of special protection; it's not *that* difficult to work out how to
implement it.

Brandon S. Allbery
bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org
1995.01.19

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(*) If you're unclear as to the relationship of the legal status of "public
domain" in U.S. and international copyright law to what most people commonly
--- and erroneously --- refer to as "public domain" software, I suggest you
check the FAQs for legal newsgroups.
