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The closest thing to a progress indicator is HASH, or more accurately, the
results of issuing the HASH command. It displays a hash mark # for each
buffer (2048 bytes?) transferred. Unless you do the math up front, and
figure out how many hashes or eighty column lines of hashes a file is, its
benefit is largely psychological, the appearance of something happening,
with the corollary torment of wondering why it periodically slows or even
stops. Some of us use it here when there is a question about the connection.
We try to avoid it in batch. From an MS client, you get the hashes one at a
time. From the MPE client, you get them a row at a time, which is probably a
good thing (avoiding terminal control characters).

Greg Stigers
http://www.cgiusa.com