[ntp:hackers] ntpq width output

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Thu Aug 14 17:56:36 UTC 2014


terje at tmsw.no said:
> -W would also be better for reading the output on a wide screen: 80-col
> CRTs are just so 1980! 

I think that's tangling several issues.

Yes, it would be nice if the printout of some variant of ntpq -p would take 
advantage of modern wide screens.  On the other hand, we are stuck with mail 
systems that have a serious line length restriction.

The original proposal (new line after long chunks) works with email.  My 
proposal (no newline) works with parsers but would be hard to read because 
the columns wouldn't line up.  There is a 3rd case which would be to just 
make the columns wider.

The current output of ntpq -p is already too wide for most mail systems.  
Maybe we need a narrow version that does fit?  Or two versions, depending 
upon what gets left out.


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