hack MyDSL GUI to show download progress

Forum: myDSL Extensions (deprecated)
Topic: hack MyDSL GUI to show download progress
started by: petergunn

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Posted by petergunn on Nov. 19 2004,19:47

After getting increasingly frustrated with stalled downloads from ibilio I hacked /usr/bin/mydslgui.pl so that it would show the download progress.

I replaced the grab subroutine with the following...

sub grab {
`cd $to_store; sudo xterm -e sudo wget --timeout=3 < http://www.ibiblio.org/pub...._this`; >
   `mydsl-load $to_store$grab_this`;
}

Works great. It uses http rather than ftp and retries after 3secs if it stalls, and it shows the progress in an xterm.

Just thought I'd share :-)

BTW love DSL. My friend gave me an old lappy that was 'unuseable'. Im not showing him it running DSL or he'll want it back!

ttfn

PG.

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Posted by ico2 on Nov. 20 2004,23:11

mmmmmmmmm, maybe it should be included in the cd

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