From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Oct 15 00:28:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA25268 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 00:28:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [194.77.0.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA25250; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 00:28:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andreas@klemm.gtn.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with UUCP id IAA09903; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 08:15:20 +0100 (MET) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA02994; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 09:07:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from andreas) Message-ID: <19971015090745.53534@klemm.gtn.com> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 09:07:45 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm To: John-Mark Gurney Cc: committers@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, ports-jp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 8 days until 2.2.5... Administrative notices. References: <19971013225014.30732@jraynard.demon.co.uk> <199710140908.CAA06359@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> <19971015000853.28485@klemm.gtn.com> <19971014234629.61023@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84 In-Reply-To: <19971014234629.61023@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>; from John-Mark Gurney on Tue, Oct 14, 1997 at 11:46:29PM -0700 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT SMP Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 ;-) -- Andreas Klemm powered by ,,symmetric multiprocessor FreeBSD'' andreas@klemm.gtn.com - http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html andreas@FreeBSD.ORG - http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/benches.html