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<_description> -This program draws a simulation of a sonar screen. By default, -it displays a random assortment of ``bogies'' on the screen, but if -installed as "setuid root", it can ping (pun intended) your local -network, and actually plot the proximity of the other hosts on your -network to you. Written by Stephen Martin and Jamie Zawinski. +This draws a sonar screen that pings (get it?) the hosts on +your local network, and plots their distance (response time) from you. +The three rings represent ping times of approximately 2.5, 70 and 2,000 +milliseconds respectively. + +Alternately, it can run a simulation that doesn't involve hosts. + +(If pinging doesn't work on Linux, you may need to make the executable +be setuid.) + +http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping#History +Written by Jamie Zawinski and Stephen Martin; 1998.