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--- a/hacks/sonar.man
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@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ sonar - display a sonar scope
 [\-team-a-count \fIint\fP]
 [\-team-b-count \fIint\fP]
 [\-no\-dns] 
+[\-no\-times] 
 [\-debug] 
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 The \fIsonar\fP program displays a sonar scope on the computer's screen.
@@ -107,6 +108,9 @@ names as the first element on each line.  If you use ssh, try this:
 .B \-no\-dns
 Do not attempt to resolve IP addresses to hostnames.
 .TP 8
+.B \-no\-times
+Do not display ping times beneath the host names.
+.TP 8
 .B \-team-a-name \fIstring\fP
 In simulation mode, the name of team A.
 .TP 8
@@ -163,16 +167,29 @@ See option \-teamACount, above.  Default value is 4.
 .B teamBCount \fIint\fP
 See option \-teamBCount, above.  Default value is 4.
 .SH NOTES
-In order to use the ping sensor, this program must be installed as 
-setuid root, so that it can create an ICMP socket.  Root privileges
-are disavowed shortly after startup (just after connecting to the
-X server and reading the resource database) so this is \fIbelieved\fP
-to be a safe thing to do, but it is usually recommended that you 
-have as few setuid programs around as possible, on general principles.
+In order to use the ping sensor on most systems, this program must be
+installed as setuid root, so that it can create an ICMP RAW socket.
+Root privileges are disavowed shortly after startup (just after
+connecting to the X server and reading the resource database) so this
+is \fIbelieved\fP to be a safe thing to do, but it is usually
+recommended that you have as few setuid programs around as possible,
+on general principles.
 .EX
-chown root.root sonar
+chown root:root sonar
 chmod u+s sonar
 .EE
+It is not necessary to make it setuid on MacOS systems, because on
+those systems, unprivileged programs can ping by using ICMP DGRAM
+sockets instead of ICMP RAW.
+
+In ping-mode, the display is a logarithmic scale, calibrated so that the
+three rings represent ping times of approximately 2.5, 70 and 2,000
+milliseconds respectively.  
+
+This means that if any the hosts you are pinging take longer than 2
+seconds to respond, they won't show up; and if you are pinging several
+hosts with very fast response times, they will all appear close to the
+center of the screen (making their names hard to read.)
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR X (1),
 .BR xscreensaver (1),
@@ -193,7 +210,7 @@ implied warranty.
 Stephen Martin <smartin@canada.com>, 3-nov-98.
 
 Thanks to Tom Kelly for suggesting a modular approach to the sensor
-amoung other things.
+among other things.
 
 Thomas Bahls <thommy@cs.tu-berlin.de> hacked the "ttl" option, 12-jul-98.