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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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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



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