On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 10:32:02PM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to echo a message during 'mktexlsr' on some ports, which > are done via @exec / @unexec. mktexlsr can take a while on large texmf > trees and on slow computers, so I would like to inform the user that > something is happening. > > A simple: > > @exec echo "test" > > Does not seem to work. Is there a way to do so? > Yeah, you would have to explicitly write stuff out to the tty. I'm not a big fan of this, though...
One thing that would make more sense is to make this automatic... Not that hard, I just have to replace the system() call with manual fork(), exec(), and display a message to the user after some amount of time has elapsed without any activity... or get the progress meter to `spin' to indicate something is going on ;-)
