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Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 09:07:45 +0200
From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>
To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc: committers@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, ports-jp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: 8 days until 2.2.5...  Administrative notices.
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On Tue, Oct 14, 1997 at 11:46:29PM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> > more infos about the download progress. Percent of downloaded
> > data, performance (K/sec), estimated time remaining.
> > 
> > When downloading large files it would be extremely useful.
> 
> I thought it already did this??
> Script started on Tue Oct 14 23:40:00 1997
> $ uname -a
> FreeBSD boron.nike.efn.org 3.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT #12: Tue Oct 14 21:31:58 PDT 1997     jmg@hydrogen.nike.efn.org:/a/home/johng/FreeBSD-checkout/cam/src/sys/compile/boron  i386
> $ fetch ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/ls-lR.gz
> Receiving ls-lR.gz (8548027 bytes)

I thought something like this (similar to that what ncftp does):

Receiving ls-lR.gz (8096/8548027 bytes 3.8K/sec 0h7m32s ET)
Receiving ls-lR.gz (12345/8548027 bytes 3.3K/sec 0h7m30s ET)

and so on. You see, if you have good connection, if it's worth
to continue downloading a large file (XFree86, xemacs, tetex, ...)

> sorry for the long line... :)

ok ;-)

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