From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 3 19:05:50 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id TAA04233 for current-outgoing; Mon, 3 Jul 1995 19:05:50 -0700 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA04227 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 1995 19:05:48 -0700 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin [198.145.90.18]) by Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with ESMTP id TAA05413; Mon, 3 Jul 1995 19:05:35 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with SMTP id TAA05964; Mon, 3 Jul 1995 19:06:11 -0700 Message-Id: <199507040206.TAA05964@corbin.Root.COM> To: Peter Wemm cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: comments on my favourite hack to traceroute? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 03 Jul 95 10:04:11 +0800." From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Mon, 03 Jul 1995 19:06:11 -0700 Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >This is my favourite hack to traceroute to rationalize the number of >digits printed in the rtt stats.. >The standard one prints three numbers after the decimal point, and when >you're up in the thousands of milliseconds (try going from australia to >the depths of europe some time.. :-), then the numbers are a bit of >overkill. It makes the display look very messy. > >I made a change to cause traceroute to only show a limited number of >significant digits.. That's similar to what the code did originally. I changed it because it incorrectly represents the precision and I find it a lot more difficult to read with varying numbers of decimal digits. I'm personally more interested in accuracy than I am in formatting. Besides, IMO, the solution to lines being too long has always been to use a larger window. :-) >From the CVS log: revision 1.2 date: 1994/08/29 17:45:43; author: davidg; state: Exp; lines: +1 -1 Changed output formatting to correctly represent the precision - it's not cool to truncate trailing zeros.. -DG