May not be feasible for the near future, but it would be great! if somehow the fMRI task computer could communicate with the real-time AfNI. What I'm thinking is, the task computer sending stim_time anchors to real-time AfNI and writing this information in the Header. That way when you use 3dDeconvolve, for example, the stim_times would already be in the Header and you wouldn't have to go through the processing burden to create them. The same goes for physiological data. Of course an "-additional_stim_time" option would be necessary for addition regressors say from Behavioral or Clinical data.