From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Feb 20 16: 9:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA5CC37B402 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:09:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a141.otenet.gr [212.205.215.141]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g1L0966w026111; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 02:09:07 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1L095A11733; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 02:09:05 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 02:09:05 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Michael Wardle Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: inconsistent use of data units Message-ID: <20020221000904.GA11700@hades.hell.gr> References: <3C743707.3080505@adacel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C743707.3080505@adacel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 2002-02-21 10:53, Michael Wardle wrote: > ... > There is a standard on how to represent data sizes here: > http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html > > I suggest that the document is updated to consistently use this standard. > > Also note, that there should always be a space between the number and > the unit (e.g. "640 kB, not "640kB"). /me votes for   and fires up browser to that page. I would prefer   for only one reason. It would seem rather awkward to read lines like: ... You have to create a swap partition at least 64 Mb for this to work... with the number at the end of a line, and the units at the beginning of the next line. Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message