> > I guess what I would really like to see, is the GUI and the work being
> > separated into two programs.. the second of which would simply display a
> > progress bar. (and perhaps a log window)
> 
> Yes, log window ! This is important (we could use different ttyE with wscons,
> but not all ports support wscons yet, unfortunably).

A slight tangent: I'm for anything that gets rid of the ASCII border around
the current log window. On machines with slow consoles, watching that puppy
scroll is just painful.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ best.com