Date: Mon, 03 Jul 1995 19:06:11 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Peter Wemm <peter@haywire.dialix.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: comments on my favourite hack to traceroute? Message-ID: <199507040206.TAA05964@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 03 Jul 95 10:04:11 %2B0800." <Pine.SV4.3.91.950703094507.20149O@haywire.DIALix.COM>
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>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
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