Progress is a simple utility that can be put, e.g., in the middle of a
shell pipeline to report how much data has been processed so far.

One of the possible styles of output:

 25% |===========>--------------------------------------| -


Compilation and installation
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If you downloaded a tar file, see the file "INSTALL" for generic
compilation and installation instructions.

If you downloaded the individual files, run "bootstrap.sh" to generate
the files "configure" and "Makefile" and then proceed as described in
"INSTALL". (This requires the GNU autoconf tools to be installed.)