"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Back in wget 1.5.3 I used to run the wget-new-percentage patch with much
> delight, and I felt a bit sadden when I forced myself to at last remove
> 1.5.3 in favour for 1.6 that still didn't have this highly useful feature.
>
> now, wget1.7-dev got a variant of this feature, however there is still
> some work to be done I believe:
>
> ==> RETR xv-3.10a-13.i386.rpm ... done.
> Length: 1,083,219 [820,419 to go] (unauthoritative)
>
> [ skipping 250K ]
> 250K ,,,,,,.... .......... .......... .......... .......... 28% @-305780.35 B/s
> 300K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 33% @ 195.31 KB/s
>
> -305780.35B/s ?
>
> Since it is a dev-release this sort of thing is to expect of course, but
> let's compare to the new-percentage-patch (I'll just copy from your url
> since I don't have the time to patch an old wget :/ )
>
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 235,173 [application/x-tar]
>
> 0K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 21% 0:00 7.31M
> 50K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 43% 0:00 8.53M
>
> The output isn't exactly identical - for one you don't get the ugly "@"
> after each line (yes I call it ugly, using "@" as an abbreviation for "at"
> is not only wrong,
How is it wrong? "@" is used as an abbreviation for "at" all the time.
> it doesn't look very good visually in my opinion) -
Personally I'd rather optimize for display clarity than display
attractiveness, but it's true that with the "/s" on there, the "@" isn't
strictly necessary to make it clear the figure is a bandwidth measurement.
I think new-percentage-patch's output may be too terse, though. Easy for
all those unlabeled numbers to confuse non-experts.
I think a bigger problem is how the current display can go over 80 columns,
which I think is much worse than is clutter due to " @ " (though removing
that would help the line wrap problem as well, of course).
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