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downloading some files. At that time I was probably running the beloved Telegard, which used external software to handle all the transfers. The Zmodem thing that was running would go full screen and had progress bars to show the total que transferred and the current file. We're sitting there talking about something and I notice out of the corner of my eye the transfer screen running. The files progressed to the end, then the bar would turn red. Then it would go to the next file... at the end, it would turn red again saying cancelled and move to the next file. Aghast, I cancelled the transfer, broke into sysop chat and scolded the user then hung up on him.
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Anyone here write their own "progress bars" into programs using C or BASIC or even DOS TSRs for DOS applications back then? That used to always be a component in install programs, etc. There were special ASCII chacters to represent the bars. A memory of the time when you mentioned progress bars. Now mostly progress is a spinning thing on the screen. Bill