alright, some kind of wicked tabular data formatter. - handles spacing and chopping up long bits - update it by named field, intelligent partial redrawing if i feel arsed - sprintfs real nicely uses... beware's dl list. proper progress bar. :P even better, ramen's table. so how's it know how long each field can be? in ramens case... there are fixeds, there are choices of knowns (choose biggest), yeah... and there can be 1 unknown that expands to fill the remaining space