>So, rather than taking some 2x4 to the user, can anyone come up with a >reliable way of printing a dot every 10 seconds, or something else that >makes users feel all warm and fuzzy about one's scripts?
I've written about progress bars within Perl in my second book, SPIDERING HACKS. The hack in question, happily, is freely available:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596005776/disobeycom http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/spiderhks/chapter/hack18.pdf
-- Morbus Iff ( i put the demon back in codemonkey ) Culture: http://www.disobey.com/ and http://www.gamegrene.com/ My book, Spidering Hacks: http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596005776/ icq: 2927491 / aim: akaMorbus / yahoo: morbus_iff / jabber.org: morbus
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