On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 05:37:21AM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> I experimented with this a bit. I tried making FileCopy mark when it
> started writing, and had CopyJob stop updating the status line when that
> happened. (Of course, this should only happen when it's writing to a
> FileCopyPeerFDStream pointing at stdout, but first things first ...)
> Unfortunately, the status line needs to be cleared, and that needs to
> happen before any writing to the terminal happens. Dead end on that
> idea.
>
> Any insights? This is complicated by the fact that these classes don't
> have access to the StatusLine except when actually updating it. We can't
> delay any output to the screen until the next time the status line would
> have been updated, obviously ...
Try eprintf(""), it should clear status line.
--
Alexander.
