On Fri, Jan 01, 2016 at 02:27:44PM -0500, Karl Dahlke wrote:
> Well as I say it's not so much for me, but others,
> so you can drive it.

Ok, thanks.

> Please comment on possible UI
> 
> Base command is pd, which means progress of download
> or print dots, as you prefer.
> 
> pdq  quiet, no feedback
> pdd print dots as is done today, one per megabyte
> pdp print download by percents, like fsck does and many other programs.
> pdc print the byte count amount/total 100 times on approximate percent boundaries
> or would you prefer 7/235 7 megabytes out of 235 megabytes, at a fixed rate?

Probably the latter. My main issue with percentages is with large files where
the percentages can take a while to update,
so I'd rather see the size based update at a fixed rate,
that way I can see if the download's stauled for some reason.
I do lots of work over VPNs etc where this happens depressingly often.

Cheers,
Adam.