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Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish?

From despen@verizon.net
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish?
Date 2011-04-28 09:10 -0400
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <icbozqzflr.fsf@verizon.net> (permalink)
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goarilla <kevin.paulus@mtm.DOTremove-thisDOT.kuleuven.DOTbe.invalid>
writes:

> On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:08:35 -0400, despen wrote:
>
>> despen@verizon.net writes:
>> Follow up.
>> 
>> Progress is calculated off file size.
>> 
>> An approach that is sure to fail.
>
> out of curiousity how would you design an
> accurate progress meter ?

To start with, see next sentence:

>> They should never let the number hit 100%, perhaps a message, "still
>> running, taking longer than expected..."

Accurate would require that the program doing the conversion output
percentage numbers as it runs.  Only that program would know where it is
in the input file.

You can't really infer much from the size of the output file.

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devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-26 21:43 +0100
  Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? philo <philo@invalid.not> - 2011-04-26 16:23 -0500
    Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? despen@verizon.net - 2011-04-26 17:43 -0400
      Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-26 23:43 +0100
        Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? despen@verizon.net - 2011-04-26 21:48 -0400
          Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-27 08:22 +0100
            Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? goarilla <kevin.paulus@mtm.DOTremove-thisDOT.kuleuven.DOTbe.invalid> - 2011-04-27 10:41 +0000
              Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-27 17:58 +0100
                Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? despen@verizon.net - 2011-04-27 13:10 -0400
                Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-27 18:18 +0100
                Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? despen@verizon.net - 2011-04-27 16:59 -0400
            Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? despen@verizon.net - 2011-04-27 12:53 -0400
              Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? despen@verizon.net - 2011-04-27 13:08 -0400
                Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-27 18:17 +0100
                Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? goarilla <kevin.paulus@mtm.DOTremove-thisDOT.kuleuven.DOTbe.invalid> - 2011-04-28 11:05 +0000
                Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-28 12:20 +0100
                Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? despen@verizon.net - 2011-04-28 09:10 -0400
                Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? goarilla <kevin.paulus@mtm.DOTremove-thisDOT.kuleuven.DOTbe.invalid> - 2011-04-29 08:20 +0000
                Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? goarilla <kevin.paulus@mtm.DOTremove-thisDOT.kuleuven.DOTbe.invalid> - 2011-04-29 08:20 +0000
                Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? Mark Hobley <markhobley@yahoo.donottypethisbit.co> - 2011-04-29 21:11 +0000
  Re: devede? is t me, or is it rubbish? Mysterious Traveler <mysterious.traveler@dot.net> - 2011-04-27 02:20 -0500

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