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[Michael Stenner]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 12:31:52PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 12:30, Michael Stenner wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:54:36AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > > His complaint about the lack of a progress bar for downloads is
> > > legitimate and it's my fault.
> > 
> > If this is a priority, then it should be implementable trivially.
> > Urlgrabber was written from scratch will progress meter support.  It
> > allows for a generic object so it will support both text and gui
> > progress updates.  Urlgrabber in fact comes with a sample text
> > progress bar :)
> > 
> > If you like, I'll turn it on :)
> 
> Sure - but make sure it doesn't output in -d 2 or lower.
> 
> seeing those in cron jobs would make me go mildly insane.

Oh my.  That would be awful.  You have no idea how awful that would
be.  (well, you probably do, but lots of other people don't)  I'll
think about those issues a bit :)

				-Michael
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