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heres my contribution to cp


From: kza
Subject: heres my contribution to cp
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 15:26:39 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.3.28i

Hi

This is no bug, but I added a feature to cp that lets us see the speed,
eta, etc during long or slow network (or tape device) copies.

It is my first attempt to contribute to an open source project so I hope
it is useful and appreciated and I will do it more.

Sometimes when I am copying movies over ethernet (especially 10Mbps) I
dont know if the server is down or crashed, I dont like to stare at a
blank screen, and I do like to keep an idea of what speeds we are
getting on the lan.

I have patched it against the fileutils 4.1 source, and uses the -o flag
to turn it on.  It is available here:

http://cratos.ath.cx/~kza/cp.patch

I still have these things to do:
1. Similar mod to mv
2. Relevant man page changes
3. Must set up a signal handler that traps a kill or term and turns the
cursor back on.
4. Find a better format for output display, or possibly let the use
supply a format string.

I also have these questions:

1. How likely is it that this patch makes it in?
2. Should I patch this against 4.1 or 4.1.9?
3. What stupid things have I done, done wrong, or neglected to do?
4. Anyone have ideas for improvements?

Thanks

Kurt



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