[Nut-upsdev] zero-prepended values - why oh why?

[Niklas Edmundsson]

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Niels Baggesen wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 02:24:49PM -0400, Peter Selinger wrote:
>> Could you give some examples of what you mean? -- Peter
>
> Try running "grep '%0[0-9]*\.[0-9]f' drivers/*.c" ... you will find
> examples in 39 different files!

Yup. snmp-ups is one of those culprits, mge-utalk is another.

And regarding the statement that certain clients might depend on the 
width of the string: If that's the case then we're in trouble, because 
very few drivers are identical in behaviour ;)

> It is for instance the native number format for upscode2 devices.

Yup, but there it actually has a reason for outputting what it does.

/Nikke
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