Coding - pulse

The need for pulse

Pulse is a small program which I wrote out of necessity. I deliberately made it very simple and at the same time very useful. I needed a way to measure the amount of time I was online and didnt know of any way to do it in Linux. The only thing I was able to do was to log the starting and ending time of my PPP session. This meant that I had to manually calculate the total amount of time I spent in each session: this was not too appealing.

Whereas my method for computing online time might not have been the best, pulse provided me with a means to accomplish my goals. It is possible that pulse could help you achieve your goals in a similar fashion.

How pulse works

Pulse basically outputs a dot `.' to the screen after a user-defined interval. The functionality of this is that if this stream of dots is redirected to a file, the size of the file determines the length of time that Pulse has been running.

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Technical Support

Technical Support is available using the support forums newly installed on the site. The fastest way to get a response to a question regarding pulse is to post it on the forums