Task Status Area


The Task Status Area (TSA) is the middle section of the terminal screen. It normally consists of four lines which each can contain status information of an active task.

The number of these status lines can be altered by setting the keyword NTASK= in the Hermes defaults file.

Every line in the TSA can contain a taskname, followed by a status message. The following messages have been defined:

WAITING TO BE RUN
a task has been activated, but is not running yet
RUNNING
the task is running
PAUSING
the task is suspended
WAITING FOR ...
the task is waiting for an other task to finish
+++ FINISHED +++
the task has finished processing normally
USER ABORT
the task has been aborted by the user
error message -FATAL
the task has detected a fatal error
CRASHED
the task exited without notification to Hermes
COULD NOT BE STARTED
the task could not be started. This is normally due to an incorrect executable, e.g. compiled for a different architecture)
task-defined message
this can be a user input prompt message, or a status message supplied by a running task

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