Originally written by Paul Vixie in 1986 and distributed through
mod.sources, "display" is a program which will repeatedly
execute a command and display the output through curses. The
purpose of this project is to maintain and extend display.
display continuously runs one or more programs and displays
their output in a console or terminal window. Originally written
by Paul Vixie , it has been updated to include update-on-demand,
"q" to quit, and screen cleaning. To output (results or data) in
a visible manner on the screen of a monitor, CRT, or other
device. An electronic device on which the output signal of
another electronic device may be presented in a visual form; --
also called display device. Typically the display device it is
the screen of a cathode-ray tube, as in a computer monitor, but
other forms of visual display such as LED or liquid crystal
devices are also used. The printed output from a computer or
other device is not considered as a display. The output signal
from a computer program, displaye