Re: Bug#296279: ITP: tarp -- small script adding progress bar support for GNU tar

[Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>]

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* Christoph Berg [Mon, Feb 21 2005, 04:13:09PM]:

> >  Simple perl script adding progress bar support
> >  for GNU tar.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'd say this is way to small to justify a package for it. Did you try
> to contact the tar maintainer to get it included there?

Agreed. However, I though about writting cp/mv versions that display
progress bars and allow interactive "resuming" of copy operations. I
think such things together with ptar could go into some kind of
"interactive-command-line-tools" package.

Regards,
Eduard.
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