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zhou13

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Registered: 2009-10-07

Posts: 35

[SOLVED]How to make powerpill not output too much line?

How to make powerpill not output too much line when it downloads different files at one time.

such as
8 SIZE:36.4MiB/42.1MiB(86%) CN:6 SPD:79.0KiBs ETA:01m13s](1more...) [TOTAL SPD[#8 SIZE:36.5MiB/42.1MiB(86%) CN:6 SPD:81.7KiBs ETA:01m09s](1more...) [TOTAL SPD[#8 SIZE:36.6MiB/42.1MiB(87%) CN:6 SPD:82.3KiBs ETA:01m07s](1more...) [TOTAL SPD[#8 SIZE:36.7MiB/42.1MiB(87%) CN:6 SPD:90.2KiBs ETA:01m00s](1more...) [TOTAL SPD[#8 SIZE:36.8MiB/42.1MiB(87%) CN:6 SPD:66.5KiBs ETA:01m21s](1more...) [TOTAL SPD[#8 SIZE:36.9MiB/42.1MiB(87%) CN:6 SPD:59.2KiBs ETA:01m29s](1more...) [TOTAL SPD[#8 SIZE:37.0MiB/42.1MiB(87%) CN:6 SPD:71.6KiBs ETA:01m13s](1more...) [TOTAL SPD[#8 SIZE:37.0MiB/42.1MiB(88%) CN:6 SPD:72.7KiBs ETA:01m10s](1more...) [TOTAL SPD:219.2KiBs]

Can I combine them in one line?
And Wget has the same problem.

Last edited by zhou13 (2010-02-10 09:18:51)

ngoonee

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Re: [SOLVED]How to make powerpill not output too much line?

I'm interested in this as well. Actually, if you just make the terminal a bit bigger you'll see it doesn't expand to so many lines, its a running counter.

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n0dix

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Re: [SOLVED]How to make powerpill not output too much line?

@zhou13 can you post an image?

lolilolicon

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Registered: 2009-03-05

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Re: [SOLVED]How to make powerpill not output too much line?

I think 97% sure it's the carriage return.
When your terminal is not wide enough and a line like

[#8 SIZE:37.0MiB/42.1MiB(88%) CN:6 SPD:72.7KiBs ETA:01m10s](1more...) [TOTAL SPD:219.2KiBs]

becomes, in your case,

[#8 SIZE:37.0MiB/42.1MiB(88%) CN:6 SPD:72.7KiBs ETA:01m10s](1more...) [TOTAL SPD
:219.2KiBs]

The carriage return won't return the cursor at "[", but at ":" instead.

The solution might be to save the cursor position right before the line is printed, and then clear the whole line, and restore the cursor position when the line needs refreshing.

I'm wondering, zhou13, what a *huge* font you have... screenshot please?

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zhou13

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Registered: 2009-10-07

Posts: 35

Re: [SOLVED]How to make powerpill not output too much line?

Right,it's the carriage return. But it is not because the font size(11).
I think width 80 is too short to use powerpill in gnome-terminal because of my font.
I wonder why your powerpill is normal.
I modify the /usr/share/vte/termcap/xterm and
set a line to

 :co#90:it#8:li#40:\

now, powerpill is perfect.

But Wget still has the problem.
I believe it is a bug in Chinese environment.

zhou13

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Registered: 2009-10-07

Posts: 35

Re: [SOLVED]How to make powerpill not output too much line?

and how to upload a image?