Bug or feature?

[hsnewman]

When scanning, the documentation says "SCAN defaults to a square scan range of ten sectors from
the present ship location", and for SRSCAN "Equivalent to SCAN, but with a default scan range of 7 sectors". Here is the rub: when set scan short is true, scan and srscan seemingly scans a different range of columns. For example (ship is in column 20):
set scan long
scan
Header is: 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30
srscan
Header is: 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27
this output seems to match the documentation.

Now:
set scan short
scan
Header is: 11 14 17 20 23 26 29
srscan
Header is: 14 17 20 23 26

I would have thought that the headers would be the same, just condensed (set out short doc: "Use 1 character symbols instead of 2").

So is this a bug, why does scan and srscan output a different range when set output short is true?
Thanks!

[statespacedev]

hi harris! hmmm, this one's hard for me to wrap the old brain around - but seeming to get the general idea:) all the way back from 83 always expected odd stuff in the game and with dec10 in general - that was a 'hand me down' setup in san marcos donated by austin (or least that's the legend/myth) and by no means 'top notch' hahaha. so basically have never really dug into details - will be super curious to see what others think!:) off topic - hi flavio are ya around? would love to learn more about where you and everyone else played 'back in the day'!:)