Program suggestion

[Leo Mauler]

If you don't mind running a file manager there's
always Midnight Commander, which runs in text mode and
very quickly, and which offers a transfer rate and
estimated time to completion value as well.

--- "Sexton, Kyle" <ksexton at gsihosting.com> wrote:

> Oh, I just ran into something where a small utility
> would help out.  Basically I needed something that
> would be just like cp or mv, but would give the
> transfer rate of the file copy.  Lot's of programs
> do this (scp, ftp, wget, etc...), but I don't think
> there is a way to have cp do it.  I could use
> 'time', but that's no fun. :)
> 
> Kyle Sexton
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: kclug-bounces at kclug.org
> [mailto:kclug-bounces at kclug.org] On Behalf Of Arthur
> Pemberton
> Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 2:46 AM
> To: kclug at kclug.org; Dalug-list at dalug.dm
> Subject: Program suggestion
> 
> Can anyone suggest a small application CLI or GUI
> that just seems to be "missing" from Linux? Not
> necessarily an application that exists in Windows,
> but not in Linux, but a program that would make some
> part of your Linux experience  better.
> 
> I am just dying to make a cool Linux app/project,
> but I am lacking ideas. For interface, I am
> considering console, GTK+ or Qt. For programming
> language, I am considering Python or C++;
> 
> I appreciate your ideas.



		
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