ppss takes a long time to invoke and then freaks out

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. '/home/godofgrunts/Desktop/ppss'  -f ./var.tar -c 'bzip2 '

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected ppss to run correctly, see attached file for terminal output and
files that were created.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
2.60

Please provide any additional information below.
I posted issue 26 and that it was seeming to hang. So I decided to test it
and let it run for 6 minutes give or take (this is how long it took to
compress var.tar with bzip2) as you can see in the output.txt it took about
7 minutes to start and then just went crazy.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Dergottd...@gmail.com on 26 Mar 2010 at 6:48

Attachments:

• output.txt
• Screenshot.png

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For got OS. Here is uname -a
Linux Arch-Lappy 2.6.32-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Mar 23 12:10:04 EDT 2010 x86_64
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5250 @ 1.50GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Original comment by Dergottd...@gmail.com on 26 Mar 2010 at 6:53

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my guess is that ppss is looking for a plain text file and not a tar file

Ouch!

Original comment by walk...@walkerj.de on 26 Mar 2010 at 12:58

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You think? I was just following the example in the video except that I used a 
file
instead of a directory... Surely, -f doesn't only look for text files does it? 
Maybe
I misunderstood the point of -f

Original comment by Dergottd...@gmail.com on 26 Mar 2010 at 3:21

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Same as the other issue, Walkerj is right. Please read the manual, this is not 
how PPSS operates. There is no use 
in using PPSS on a single file. 

Original comment by Louwrentius on 26 Mar 2010 at 10:58

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Original comment by Louwrentius on 26 Mar 2010 at 10:59

• Changed state: WontFix