: a useful way of indicating completion of something

user=`whoami`

if test ${ALERTER-none} = none
then
    if test -f /user/$user/.alerter
    then
	ALERTER=`cat /user/$user/.alerter`
    fi
fi

: ${ALERTER=alert}

case $# in 
0)  echo 'Finished' | $ALERTER font=oldeng button='At last !' ;;
*)    echo 'Finished ...
... "'$*'"' | $ALERTER font='6x13p' button='At last !' ;;
esac
