On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:28:36 -0400 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Fraser Campbell wrote: > > Loading the second floppy, some dots or a spinning cursor would be useful here > > just to show meaningful progress. > > I agree, though it will take some shell magic, since all I have is POSIX > shell, and the following command: > > zcat floppy/initrd.gz > mnt/tmp-initrd > > To get a spinner, it would probably have to fork off a program that just > spins, and then kill it when done. I'll get to it eventually. There was a progress indicator patch sent to the busybox mailing list recently "Read from stdin, write to stdout, write a progress indicator to stderr." http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2003-October/009498.html Glenn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
