From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Feb 12 6:21:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from gidgate.gid.co.uk (gid.co.uk [194.32.164.225]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D9AA37B400 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 06:21:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rb@localhost) by gidgate.gid.co.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1CEJwQ88673; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:19:58 GMT (envelope-from rb) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20020212141136.00bfa950@gid.co.uk> X-Sender: rbmail@gid.co.uk X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:19:55 +0000 To: Tomas Svensson , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG From: Bob Bishop Subject: Re: bin/34834: "fix" of du(1) and -h In-Reply-To: <200202121400.g1CE04u11713@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, > CJC> 'k' is generally used for multiples of 1000. 'K' is used for multiples > CJC> of 1024. Sticking with 'K' is prefered except possibly for the '-H' > CJC> option of df(1). But it seems like a lot of trouble to change that one > CJC> case to 'k'. > > Yes you're right, change the 'k' to 'K'. Just because 3-4 people told > me that 'k' was right, I assumed that they were correct. *ALL* the standard one-letter prefixes strictly denote powers of 10, so being precious over k/K doesn't really help much. See http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html and http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html for the applicable standards. -- Bob Bishop +44 (0)118 977 4017 rb@gid.co.uk fax +44 (0)118 989 4254 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message