[boost] Re: Customer Friendlier Boost Installation

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-31 21:03:48

David Abrahams wrote:
> Rob Stewart <stewart_at_[hidden]> writes:
> 
>>From: David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]>
>>
>>>Rob Stewart <stewart_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>>
>>>>There's always the old standby approach of printing, in
>>>>succession, the following strings:
>>>>
>>>>   "\r-"
>>>>   "\r\"
>>>>   "\r|"
>>>>   "\r/"
>>>>   repeat
>>>
>>>Does that really work reliably and portably, or are some people going to see
>>>
>>>  -\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/....
>>
>>I suppose that there might be a dumb terminal emulator that won't
>>do the right thing, but I wouldn't expect that to be at all
>>common.  Even emacs's shell mode, for which $TERM is "dumb,"
>>works (tested using
>>
>>   printf "testing -"; sleep 1; printf "\rtesting \\"; sleep 1; printf "\rtesting |"; sleep 1; printf "\rtesting /"; sleep 1; printf "\rtesting...done\n"
>>
>>from bash).
> 
> Okay, I'm all for it.

Question is... Does that work in CMD.EXE?

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