From nemesis!uhclem@fw.ast.com  Sun Apr  9 13:14:01 1995
Received: from relay1.UU.NET (relay1.UU.NET [192.48.96.5])
          by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA01145
          for <FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org>; Sun, 9 Apr 1995 13:13:59 -0700
Received: from ast.com by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP 
	id QQyktk25417; Sun, 9 Apr 1995 16:13:47 -0400
Received: from trsvax.fw.ast.com (fw.ast.com) by ast.com with SMTP id AA08916
  (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for uunet!freebsd.org!FreeBSD-gnats-submit); Sun, 9 Apr 1995 13:17:54 -0700
Received: by trsvax.fw.ast.com (/\=-/\ Smail3.1.18.1 #18.1)
	id <m0ry3FI-0000HdC@trsvax.fw.ast.com>; Sun, 9 Apr 95 15:06 CDT
Received: by nemesis.lonestar.org (Smail3.1.27.1 #18)
	id m0ry2UP-0004upC; Sun, 9 Apr 95 14:17 CDT
Message-Id: <m0ry2UP-0004upC@nemesis.lonestar.org>
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 95 14:17 CDT
From: uhclem%nemesis@fw.ast.com
Reply-To: uhclem%nemesis@fw.ast.com
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Cc: uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org
Subject: FTP transfers above 99K shown in scientific notation	FDIV022
X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.2

>Number:         329
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       FTP transfers above 99K shown in scientific notation	FDIV022
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Apr  9 13:21:06 1995
>Closed-Date:    Sun May 26 14:12:59 PDT 1996
>Last-Modified:  Sun May 26 14:13:22 PDT 1996
>Originator:     Frank Durda IV
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.0.0-SNAP950322 i386
>Organization:
>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*

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: scrappy 
State-Changed-When: Sun May 26 14:12:59 PDT 1996 
State-Changed-Why:  
fixed in current 
>Unformatted:


