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From: Michael Schwingen <rincewind@discworld.dascon.de>
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:17:40 +0100
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Add flash programming counter]
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Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Please let's stay terse. Printing a dot is a single character on  the
> console.  I dislike funny stuff which requires output of non-printing
> characters or (weven worse!) terminal specific escape sequences.
>   
Backspace or CR without LF should work on all terminals, no?

No matter how it is implemented, I am strongly in favor of *some* kind 
of progress output.

If it is possible to estimate how long the operation will take, this 
would be a big plus IMHO (which precludes the simple dots).

cu
Michael