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- Introduction
- ************
-
- This is the README for `pv' ("Pipe Viewer"), a terminal-based tool for
- monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline. It can be inserted into
- any normal pipeline between two processes to give a visual indication of how
- quickly data is passing through, how long it has taken, how near to
- completion it is, and an estimate of how long it will be until completion.
-
-
- Documentation
- *************
-
- A manual page is included in this distribution. See `man ./doc/quickref.1',
- or `man pv' after installation.
-
-
- Compilation
- ***********
-
- To compile the package, type "sh ./configure", which should generate a
- Makefile for your system. You may then type "make" to build everything.
- Note that GNU `make' is required; this may be installed as `gmake' on some
- systems, so if typing "make" gives an error, try "gmake" instead.
-
- See the file `doc/INSTALL' for more about the `configure' script.
-
- Developers note that you can do "./configure --enable-debugging" to cause
- debugging support to be built in, and "--enable-profiling" builds in
- profiling support (see "man gprof"). Also note that doing "make index" will
- generate an HTML code index (using "ctags" and "cproto"); this index lists
- all files used, all functions defined, and all TODOs marked in the code.
-
-
- Author
- ******
-
- This package is copyright (C) 2008 Andrew Wood, and is being distributed
- under the terms of the Artistic License 2.0. For more details, see the
- file `doc/COPYING'.
-
- You can contact me by email at andrew.wood@ivarch.com or by using the
- contact form on my web page at http://www.ivarch.com/.
-
- The `pv' home page is at:
-
- http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml
-
- The latest version can always be found here.
-
- Credit is also due to:
-
- Kevin Coyner <kcoyner@debian.org>
- - Debian package maintainer
-
- Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek@redhat.com>
- - Fedora package maintainer
-
- CΘdric Delfosse <cedric@debian.org>
- - previous Debian package maintainer
-
- Eduardo Aguiar <eduardo.oliveira@sondabrasil.com.br>
- - provided Portuguese (Brazilian) translation
-
- StΘphane Lacasse <tecknojunky@tecknojunky.com>
- - provided French translation
-
- Marcos Kreinacke <public@kreinacke.com>
- - provided German translation
-
- Bartosz Fe±ski <fenio@o2.pl> <http://skawina.eu.org/>
- - provided Polish translation along with Krystian Zubel
-
- Joshua Jensen
- - reported RPM installation bug
-
- Boris Folgmann <http://www.folgmann.com/en/>
- - reported cursor handling bug
-
- Mathias Gumz
- - reported NLS bug
-
- Daniel Roethlisberger
- - submitted patch to use lockfiles for -c if terminal locking fails
-
- Adam Buchbinder
- - lots of help with a Cygwin port of -c
-
- Mark Tomich <http://metuchen.dyndns.org>
- - suggested -B option
-
- Gert Menke
- - reported bug when piping to dd with a large input buffer size
-
- Ville Herva <Ville.Herva@iki.fi>
- - informative bug report about rate limiting performance
-
- Elias Pipping
- - patch to compile properly on Darwin 9
-
- Patrick Collison
- - similar patch for OS X
-
- Boris Lohner
- - reported problem that "-L" does not complain if given non-numeric value
-
- Laszlo Ersek <http://phptest11.atw.hu/>
- - reported shared memory leak on SIGINT with -c
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