I imagine this has already been suggested or even done, but I couldn't find any 
references to it anywhere.

Anyway, I was wanting to have wget work with xterm to display its download progress in 
the xterm titlebar. I pulled together a little patch, which seems to do the trick, but 
no doubt someone who actually knows wget could make it much prettier.

Anyway, the patch is at http://rhowe.sfarc.net/files/wget-1.7-xtermsupport-0.99.diff.gz
There's also a screenshot showing the effect: 
http://rhowe.sfarc.net/files/screenshot4.jpg (bottom left corner)

The only thing I missed out in the patch is an addition to the --help text and the 
other docs.

I'm not subscribed to the list, so if this gets any replies could I be CC'ed? Thanks.

There are some things I don't like about the way I've done things but I figured it 
would take me far longer to make it elegant than someone who knows what they're doing 
:) It took me about an hour to work out where I needed to insert my code and actually 
get it working! Add another 30mins to an hour to check it all works, fix probs, wrap 
it all up etc and I figured I'd spent long enough on it :)

Anyway, there's a patch. See what you think.

I had to change print_percentage() slightly, but it shouldn't affect anything. (made 
it return the percentage as an int)

--Russell Howe
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