Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!news From: smsmith@hpuxa.acs.ohio-state.edu (Stephen M. Smith) Subject: Re: deskview question Message-ID: <1991Apr18.201621.21353@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: hpuxa.acs.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University References: <1991Apr18.163928.16521@cs.cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1991 20:16:21 GMT Lines: 25 ralf+@cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown) writes: > >I use >the tiny 34-byte program created by the following DEBUG script: >[deletions] You are either the most humble person in the world, or you are not the Ralf Brown I'm thinking of!!! :) If the original poster would like to see just how much space the file that is being downloaded is taking, they should get the program that was written by Ralf Brown called File View. It can be obtained from wuarchive.wustl.edu in /mirrors/msdos/ desqview. The program is GREAT! Within Desqview if you start it up it opens a window and shows all the open files on your drive, and gives you some important info on each one; included in that info is the size of the file which is always current-- that is, you can watch the size of your file grow in bytes as it is being downloaded. File View runs in foreground, background, and you can scale its window. In addition, it only takes 16k RAM--and that INCLUDES any needed Desqview overhead. Steve Smith smsmith@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu