Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:27:26 +0200
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: expand_number() for fetch'es -B and -S switches
Message-ID:  <86fwxt5ng1.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20100831180103.GA92584@freebsd.org> (Alexander Best's message of "Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:01:03 %2B0000")
References:  <20100831180103.GA92584@freebsd.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> writes:
> just having a quick look around to see, if anybody would be interested in
> fetch -B and fetch -S accepting humanized numbers using expand_number()?

I can understand it for -B, but not for -S, since in the common case (by
1023 to 1, assuming a random distribution) the argument to -S can not be
expressed in [kMGTEP]B.

DES
--=20
Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?86fwxt5ng1.fsf>