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RFE: please fix limited dd output control (want xfer stats, but not blocks).

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From: Linda Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
Cc: 19544 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19544: RFE: please fix limited dd output control (want xfer stats, but not blocks).
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 11:48:43 -0800

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> There is a new status=progress option that will
> output the above format every second, but on
> a single updated line.
---
excellent.


>> (Which, BTW, uses program intelligence to use the same output units as
>> the user used for input units, rather than giving them units in an
>> unfamiliar dialect).
> 
> this has been discussed previously.
---
	True, but it hasn't been fixed and reasons against
*localization* to the user's stated dialect and preference
were never given.  How is it that giving the users what they
want meets with such resistance?

It seems I wasn't the only one who had the opinion I presented,
and there was no good technical reason why it shouldn't be done.

As you say, this was previously discussed and the result
was there was no good technical reason for not doing it, but
those who own 'dd' decided not to do it in their version at that
time.

That doesn't mean you might not have come up with some
technical reason not to it since your last "discussion".

> thanks,
> Pádraig


thanks as well, ;-)
Linda

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