Re: Wheel "\|/-" instead of dots "......"

[Christoph Plattner]

No, the filesize is not known.
Further Mr, Okuji has right, the progress bar would destroy
the output of `cat', as the TFTP load is transparently done
at file read. So the progress bar must be able to enable/
disable.

With friendly regards
Christoph P.


Mario Klebsch wrote:
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> On Thursday, 31. January 2002 12:14, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
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> > While I understand what you mean, I don't think the rolling bar is
> > good, either. When running "cat", it was just annoying to see several
> > marks with the real contents of a file.
> 
> Is the size of the file known prior to downloading it?
> 
> If yes, grub could have a relative progress indicator, e.g. 50 chars
> wide, each chars for 2% of the download.
> 
> It shpould be possible to implement this progress indicator without
> having to use /r or /b.
> 
> 73, Mario
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