Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 22:55:54 +0800 From: adrian@freebsd.org To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Cc: doug@gorean.org Subject: Re: bin/13758: adding current download throughput output to fetch(1) Message-ID: <19990915225554.A8291@ewok.creative.net.au>
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[Forwarding from here because of reverse DNS brokeness atm.] On Wed, Sep 15, 1999, Doug wrote: > First, if you look carefully at the code above yours you can see that the > proper divisor for KiloBytes is 1024, not 1000. However, that begs a couple > of questions. First, since it's bytes and not bits that are being > displayed, shouldn't it be KBytes (in both places) instead of Kbytes? And > since we're measuring bandwidth and not character storage, shouldn't the > measurement be bits and not bytes? > > Thank you for your contribution, DUMB! Sorry, I've been writing telco accounting systems for the last few months, and we all know what they use. Eek! Sure, bits/second sounds like a good enough idea, what else do people think? Adrian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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