Toolbar - rgb percentages to rgb level readouts?

The reading in the toolbar ... as one passes the cursor over the image ... shows the corresponding pixel values in RGB percentages.
This is meaningless to me, and worse, useless.
What I need are the rgb level readings, as in ACR or any other program.
How do I change to those? I can find no info on this yet in my searches.
Neil

Thanks, Don...
I found that thread just after posting this one.
I am rather surprised they decided NOT to do something they and every other raw converter designer has done ... let the user choose an output space and give the levels for that output space. Otherwise, as they have chosen to do, their "output" file is useless as a final product. You have to check it in something else, and adjust further, before sending to a lab.
With that as their final deal, this is a clunker of a program for my useage. We do all our adjusting of color/contrast/density and send to our lab with the express instructions they NOT apply anything to the files. Just print precisely as received, no color or density changes. I was expecting to be able to do this to all files, whether the raw's from my D200 or my wife's S3 jpegs. Yea, one program would handle all our "developing" needs.
Oh contraire ... do 'em here then open them in Photoshop also. How studid is that?
I hadn't even checked for this before buying the program because I had never seen ANYONE ... including Adobe ... say something so technic-geek stupid.
OF COURSE the levels would not mean anything unless you had a chosen output space. WHICH IS WHY THAT HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE WORKFLOW. Choosing your output space is ALWAYS one of the setup options.
Sorry, I don't often do all caps but this has me really steamed.
Neil

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Well, i wasn't sure what happened to curtime - 3, curtime -2 and curtime -1 ... but maybe this is a start for you.
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TIME_LOG                                                                    COUNT(CASEWHENSTATUS=1THEN1ELSENULLEND)/COUNT(*)*100
07-APR-10 08.46.22.557850 AM                                                                                                  25
07-APR-10 09.46.22.557850 AM                                                                                                   0
07-APR-10 10.46.22.557850 AM                                                                                                   0
07-APR-10 11.46.22.557850 AM                                                                                                 100
07-APR-10 12.46.22.557850 PM                                                                                                 100
07-APR-10 01.46.22.557850 PM                                                                                                   0
07-APR-10 02.46.22.557850 PM                                                                                                   0
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