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Date: Sun, 9 Apr 1995 13:21:08 -0700
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Subject: bin/329: FTP transfers above 99K shown in scientific notation	FDIV022
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>Number:         329
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       FTP transfers above 99K shown in scientific notation	FDIV022
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs (FreeBSD bugs mailing list)
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Apr  9 13:21:06 1995
>Originator:     Frank Durda IV
>Organization:
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.0.0-SNAP950322 i386
>Environment:

FreeBSD 2.0.0-SNAP950322 i386


>Description:

[FDIV022]

When FTP completes a transfer that runs faster the 99K/sec, it displays
the results in scientific notation.

Although people who have taken (and remember) chemistry and related
scientific courses, the average user has not.  I got a call from
someone I support who thought the system was broken because it was
displaying letters in numbers (ie "e").

Can't we fix this so that it doesn't switch to scientific notation that
average people don't understand?

I note that SCO and NCSA telnet packages have done this.


>How-To-Repeat:

FTP something from a system that you can achieve a >99K/sec transfer
rate on.


>Fix:

Change a printf?
	

*END*

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