On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, David Brownlee wrote:
> > 	If there are enough easily compressible pages it may even take
> > 	less time :) Seriously - if I'm in a real hurry I hit ^C on
> > 	savecore now - if I'm not in a hurry I don't mind if it takes
> > 	twice as long. Its not ideal, but with the above I still think
> > 	its the better overall.
> 
> You type ^C, but what if the user in front of the machine doesn't know
> about it? he will just wonder what's wrong, maybe even press the reset
> button. (I know what I'm talking about...). 

	Even with the 'counting up' display of savecore? If so that is
	almost as much of a problem without the compression.

	Maybe the display should be changed to show percentage completed?

		David/absolute