i have a quick question that's not about formatting.
will all the man page be updated to explain what dflt, slp
lat, and friends mean?
ed

On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 11:49:51AM -0700, Dan Price wrote:
> On Tue 16 Oct 2007 at 08:40AM, Joseph Kowalski wrote:
> > >My original thought was to provide -u (microsecond) and -n
> > >(nanosecond) options to allow users to specify the resolution.  For
> > >these I would have left the default resolution at milliseconds for
> > >backwards-compatibility.  That was the closest I came to the -h/-k
> > >equivalent.
> > >
> > >But I think you're actually asking for output like this:
> > >  
> > Uh, not really.
> > 
> > I would be equally happy with your original thought about using "-u" 
> > and  "-n".
> 
> I'll claim responsibility for this: Chad originally proposed -u and -n,
> but my comment was that this creates its own usability problem: the user
> must now *discover* the fact that ptime has greater resolution, rather
> than just supplying the user the higher precision result by default.
> 
> As an aside, there's no difference in the way we gather the data-- only
> in the way it gets printed, so literally this is an argument over
> printf formatting :(
> 
>         -dp
> 
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