diff --git a/twander.py b/twander.py
index d4db77c..b1bdc5a 100755
--- a/twander.py
+++ b/twander.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 # Program Information
 
 PROGNAME = "twander"
-RCSID    = "$Id: twander.py,v 3.225 2009/06/27 22:17:56 tundra Exp $"
+RCSID    = "$Id: twander.py,v 3.226 2009/06/28 05:35:56 tundra Exp $"
 VERSION  = RCSID.split()[2]
 
 # Copyright Information
@@ -306,6 +306,7 @@
 NONAVIGATE      = False           # True means that all directory navigation is prevented
 QUOTECHAR       = '\"'            # Character to use when quoting Built-In Variables
 REFRESHINT      = 5000            # Interval (ms) for automatic refresh
+SCALEPRECISION  = 1               # Precision of scaled length representation
 SORTBYFIELD     = "Name"          # Field to use as sort key
 SORTREVERSE     = False           # Reverse specified sort order?
 SORTSEPARATE    = True            # Separate Directories and Files in sorted displays?
@@ -1078,11 +1079,17 @@
             norms = (1, "")
 
         # Scale the results and convert into a string
+        # displaying SCALEPRECISION worth of digits to
+        # the right of the decimal point
         
+        sep = ""
+        if SCALEPRECISION:
+            sep = "."
+
         factor = norms[0]
         if (factor > 1):
-            flen = float(flen)/factor
-            flen = "%.1f" % flen
+            l, r = str(float(flen)/factor).split(".")
+            flen = l + sep + r[:SCALEPRECISION]
         else:
             flen = str(flen)
 
@@ -5438,7 +5445,7 @@
 
 UI.OptionsNumeric = {"AFTERWAIT":AFTERWAIT,"DEBUGLEVEL":DEBUGLEVEL, "FSZ":FSZ, "MFSZ":MFSZ, "HFSZ":HFSZ,
                      "HEIGHT":HEIGHT, "MAXMENU":MAXMENU, "MAXMENUBUF":MAXMENUBUF, "MAXNESTING":MAXNESTING,
-                     "REFRESHINT":REFRESHINT, "STARTX":STARTX, "STARTY":STARTY, "WIDTH":WIDTH}
+                     "REFRESHINT":REFRESHINT, "SCALEPRECISION":SCALEPRECISION, "STARTX":STARTX, "STARTY":STARTY, "WIDTH":WIDTH}
 
 UI.OptionsString  = {"BCOLOR":BCOLOR,   "FCOLOR":FCOLOR,   "FNAME":FNAME,   "FWT":FWT,    # Main Font/Colors
                      "MBCOLOR":MBCOLOR, "MFCOLOR":MFCOLOR, "MFNAME":MFNAME, "MFWT":MFWT,  # Menu Font/Colors