On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 03:05:34PM -0800, Paul E Condon,,, wrote: > 1. rearrange the output so that the user can scroll back > through what has already been done and review what he has already > instructed jigdo to do, i.e. don't overwrite user input, ever.
Hm, are you using my jigdo-lite or Anne Bezemer's version (from cdimage/~costar)? My version is much simpler and not screen-oriented, so it doesn't overwrite any old screen content. What does happen, though, is that a lot of text is output as time goes by, so if you do not configure your terminal to buffer several thousand lines of output, old text will eventually disappear. > 2. put carriage return (not new lines characters) at end of pacifier > lines (the lines that begin with a kilobyte count and end with [ xx%] ) > The movement of the cursor over a single line as it is updated > would give a adequate indication of short term progress. That's difficult to achieve because the output 0K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 26% @ 980.39 KB/s is created by wget, not by jigdo-lite. For the next release, I'll pass the --dot-style=mega switch to wget, which will reduce the amount of dots that are output. Hm, I just noticed I could do wget ... 2>&1 | tr '\n' '\r' but then any wget error messages would never be visible on screen, which is not desirable. > 3. compute and display some crude estimate of overall progress. > Precision is not necessary, but it would be nice to know how many > packages are yet to be downloaded, and how many have already been > downloaded (not counting the ones that were OK on the local startup > image) There actually *is* a (admittedly /very/) crude progress report: At regular intervals, jigdo-file is invoked by the script and prints something like: Found 10 of the 1423 files required by the template The second number decreases as time goes by - when it reaches 0, the download is finished. Thanks for your feedback! Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | CS student at the Technische | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | Universität München, Germany | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]