No, the filesize is not known. Further Mr, Okuji has right, the progress bar would destroy the output of `cat', as the TFTP load is transparently done at file read. So the progress bar must be able to enable/ disable.
With friendly regards Christoph P. Mario Klebsch wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > On Thursday, 31. January 2002 12:14, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > > While I understand what you mean, I don't think the rolling bar is > > good, either. When running "cat", it was just annoying to see several > > marks with the real contents of a file. > > Is the size of the file known prior to downloading it? > > If yes, grub could have a relative progress indicator, e.g. 50 chars > wide, each chars for 2% of the download. > > It shpould be possible to implement this progress indicator without > having to use /r or /b. > > 73, Mario > - -- > Mario Klebsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] > PGP-Key available at http://www.klebsch.de/public.key > Fingerprint DSS: EE7C DBCC D9C8 5DC1 D4DB 1483 30CE 9FB2 A047 9CE0 > Diffie-Hellman: D447 4ED6 8A10 2C65 C5E5 8B98 9464 53FF 9382 F518 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use > MessageID: ps9Srim8cm1buCcYPgaGpVBdxXdDmFax > > iQA/AwUBPFmM2DDOn7KgR5zgEQJ1gQCeNrb1HSlluTWE7kay7BB3XDqHtQMAnjlF > jGGbwAKmPl8CL2liyzJ5PONV > =Og9F > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-grub mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub -- ------------------------------------------------------- private: [EMAIL PROTECTED] company: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub