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reverse frag scanning patch


From: Lamont Granquist <lamontg () raven genome washington edu>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 12:31:50 -0700


This just swaps the order that frags are sent out in -f frag scans.  This
was alluded to by the comment in the send_small_fragz source:

/* Lets save this and send it AFTER we send the second one, just to be
   cute ;) */

As I recall earlier versions of the linux kernel didn't let you do this.
Turns out that 2.0.36 and 2.2.5 do in fact let you do this.

Patch is pretty much just proof-of-concept.  It should probably be
implimented with a commandline flag that lets you select if you want
reverse frags or not.  Also, a time delay in between sending out the two
frags might be a good thing.

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Lamont Granquist                       lamontg () genome washington edu
Dept. of Molecular Biotechnology       (206)616-5735  fax: (206)685-7344
Box 352145 / University of Washington / Seattle, WA 98195
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