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[Spencer Ogden <spencero AT mail.utexas.edu>]

A couple comments to throw in...

I too have seen the animated bar, which is much more compact. I'm not sure 
if it is a http vs. ftp thing, or more likely a known-filesize vs. 
unknown.

Also, I don't think the download log should be displayed if VOYEUR is set 
to off. That would allow for very compact reporting of what is going on. I 
guess this would be an addition to `summon`?

Spencer

On Thursday 08 August 2002 02:17 pm, Nathan Doss wrote:
> Ari wrote:
> > First, does summon --url work correctly?
>
> Have you tried -url?
>
> > Next, and this one has been bothering me for a while, why is it that
> > summon sometimes presents such a nice display with an "animated" bar
> > displaying your progress, but other times it scrolls a newline in
> > between each update in a pretty ugly way?
>
> Summon uses "wget" to download files.  The animated bar is from wget.
> If the file is in the cache already, then wget is not used -- maybe
> that's what you're seeing?
>
> > And when casting multiple spells at a time, if a download fails for
> > one of them, it seems to scroll through the whole failed download
> > message in between each other cast.
>
> Compiling one spell & downloading others can occur in parallel.  In
> between each compile step, cast will show you the latest text from the
> download log.  If all the spells are finished downloading, you'll
> see the same portion of the download log between each compile.