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Date:      Tue, 15 Jul 1997 15:00:17 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Ping with standard deviation?
Message-ID:  <199707152200.PAA00489@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199707151921.PAA12803@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Jul 15, 97 03:21:20 pm

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> I just modified `ping' to output standard deviation in addition to the
> other statistics.  Does anyone out there think that this would be
> useful in the general case?

I like it; so long as we retain a convention of using a space as a token
seperator and a space or a slash as a numeric seperator, it won't
even damage scripts.


> It does increase the size of the ping executable a few K since we have
> to link against the math library.

There was no way to calculate this with integer math?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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