From owner-freebsd-install Mon Sep 25 04:35:51 1995 Return-Path: owner-install Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id EAA09359 for install-outgoing; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 04:35:51 -0700 Received: from holly.cam.harlequin.co.uk (holly.cam.harlequin.co.uk [193.128.4.58]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id EAA09354 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 04:35:47 -0700 Received: from rocannon.cam.harlequin.co.uk by holly.cam.harlequin.co.uk; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 12:35:45 +0100 Received: from [192.88.238.248] (dynamic-mac4.cam.harlequin.co.uk) by rocannon.cam.harlequin.co.uk; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 12:35:41 +0100 X-Sender: richard@mailhost.cam.harlequin.co.uk Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 12:35:44 +0100 To: freebsd-install@freebsd.org From: richard@harlequin.co.uk (Richard Brooksby) Subject: One-line status windows Sender: owner-install@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk (I'm new to freebsd-install, please forgive me if this point has already been raised.) When the installation program is reporting progress, such as newfs commands, it prints each one in its own dialog box, erasing the previous one, often too fast for the eye to follow. May I suggest that when reporting progress through several commands you use a single window and show the commands one after another? Windows are all very well, but using only 5% of the screen to display information is not a good thing. Thanks for your time. --- Richard Brooksby Manager & Developer / Memory Management / Symbolic Processing / Harlequin +44 1223 873881 (voice) +44 1223 872519 (fax)