Dynamically allocate the buffer used for reading data from the input

[bsd-progress.git] / progress.1

diff --git a/progress.1 b/progress.1
index 3a19ab17d39b63e88ffb58915ab2755fb60c04da..ac35bd3eff17fd7965cec005758537ec0c988790 100644 (file)
--- a/progress.1
+++ b/progress.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $NetBSD: progress.1,v 1.12 2007/04/12 06:31:20 lukem Exp $
+.\"    $NetBSD: progress.1,v 1.13 2007/06/06 17:49:14 briggs Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2003-2007 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 .\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
 .\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.Dd April 12, 2007
+.Dd June 6, 2007
 .Dt PROGRESS 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
 .Sh SYNOPSIS
 .Nm
 .Op Fl ez
+.Op Fl b Ar buffersize
 .Op Fl f Ar file
 .Op Fl l Ar length
 .Op Fl p Ar prefix
@@ -65,6 +66,11 @@ simply displays a count of the data and the data rate.
 .Pp
 The options are as follows:
 .Bl -tag -width XlXlengthXX
+.It Fl b Ar buffersize
+Read in buffers of the specified size (default 64k).
+An optional suffix (per
+.Xr strsuftoll 3 )
+may be given.
 .It Fl e
 Display progress to standard error instead of standard output.
 .It Fl f Ar file