In article <1199vf87btth9dc@corp.supernews.com> A.J. Loonstra
<arnaud@#nospam#.sphaero.org> wrote:

> >> if I could only get the original 'progress' command which is used on
> >> NetBSD.
> > http://freshmeat.net/projects/progress/

> Nope it works ok but it's nothing more than hash in ftp..
> it just prints out a dot for every n bytes...

> I did try the bar command which works ok but it doens't work with
> supplying a password interactively...

> I tried contacting the developer of lukemftp since progress on NetBSD is
> developed together with it's ftp command but misses in lukemftp. Even
> the man page is referring to it.

> The search continues...

A quick look at the package repository for NetBSD shows that it's
just a Perl construct: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Term-ProgressBar