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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting countdown to christmas Post 302309779 by trob on Wednesday 22nd of April 2009 10:25:10 PM
Old 04-22-2009
countdown to christmas

was wondering if there was a script that would countdiwn the days until christmas
 

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Bio::Graphics::Glyph::christmas_arrow(3pm)		User Contributed Perl Documentation		Bio::Graphics::Glyph::christmas_arrow(3pm)

NAME
Bio::Graphics::Glyph::christmas_arrow - The "christmas arrow" glyph SYNOPSIS
See L<Bio::Graphics::Panel> and L<Bio::Graphics::Glyph>. DESCRIPTION
This glyph draws an arrow which has a circle ("christmas ball") dangling at one end. OPTIONS In addition to the common options, the following glyph-specific options are recognized: Option Description Default ------ ----------- ------- -radius Radius of the circle 4 glyph -length Length of the arrow 20 -height Standard option, but 10 important here BUGS
Please report them. SEE ALSO
Bio::Graphics::Panel, Bio::Graphics::Glyph, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::arrow, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::cds, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::crossbox, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::diamond, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::dna, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::dot, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::ellipse, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::extending_arrow, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::generic, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::graded_segments, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::heterogeneous_segments, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::line, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::pinsertion, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::primers, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::rndrect, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::segments, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::ruler_arrow, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::toomany, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::transcript, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::transcript2, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::translation, Bio::Graphics::Glyph::triangle, Bio::DB::GFF, Bio::SeqI, Bio::SeqFeatureI, Bio::Das, GD AUTHOR
Vsevolod (Simon) Ilyushchenko <simonf@cshl.edu>. Copyright (c) 2004 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See DISCLAIMER.txt for disclaimers of warranty. perl v5.14.2 2012-02-20 Bio::Graphics::Glyph::christmas_arrow(3pm)
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