6 Mar
2008
6 Mar
'08
6:17 p.m.
Wolfgang Denk wrote:
Please let's stay terse. Printing a dot is a single character on the console. I dislike funny stuff which requires output of non-printing characters or (weven worse!) terminal specific escape sequences.
Backspace or CR without LF should work on all terminals, no?
No matter how it is implemented, I am strongly in favor of *some* kind of progress output.
If it is possible to estimate how long the operation will take, this would be a big plus IMHO (which precludes the simple dots).
cu Michael