| Name : cstream
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| Version : 2.5.1
| Vendor : (none)
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| Release : 1.guru.suse90
| Date : 2005-03-30 22:11:00
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| Group : Productivity/Utilities
| Source RPM : cstream-2.5.1-1.guru.suse90.src.rpm
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| Size : 0.03 MB
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| Packager : Pascal Bleser < guru_unixtech_be>
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| Summary : General-purpose stream-handling tool
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Description :
cstream is a general-purpose stream-handling tool like UNIX\' dd, usually used
in commandline-constructed pipes.
Features:
- Sane commandline switch syntax.
- Exact throughput limiting, on the incoming side. Timing variance in previous
reads are counterbalanced in the following reads.
- Precise throughput reporting. Either at the end of the transmission or
everytime SIGUSR1 is received. Quite useful to ask lengthy opertions how
much data has been transferred yet, i.e. when writing tapes. Reports are
done in bytes/sec and if appropriate in KB/sec or MB/sec, where 1K = 1024.
- SIGUSR2 causes a clean shutdown before EOF on input, timing informating is
displayed.
- Build-in support to write its PID to a file, for painless sending of these
signals.
- Build-in support for fifos. Example usage is a \'pseudo-device\', something
that sinks or delivers data at an appropriate rate, but looks like a file,
i.e. if you test soundcard software. See the manpage for examples.
- Built-in data creation and sink, no more redirection of /dev/null and
/dev/zero. These special devices speed varies greatly amoung operating
systems, redirecting from it isn\'t appropriate benchmarking and a waste of
resources anyway.
- Accepts \'k\', \'m\' and \'g\' character after number for \"kilo, mega, giga\" bytes
for overall data size limit.
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RPM found in directory: /packages/linux-pbone/ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/misc/suser-guru/rpm/packages/Utilities/cstream |
