From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 11 15:13:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB08014E99 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 15:13:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA37233; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 16:13:53 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id QAA07511; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 16:14:02 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200001112314.QAA07511@harmony.village.org> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Subject: Re: Additional option to ls -l for large files Cc: MichaelV@EDIFECS.COM (Michael VanLoon), joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 11 Jan 2000 14:49:39 PST." <200001112249.OAA25732@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <200001112249.OAA25732@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 16:14:02 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200001112249.OAA25732@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> "Rodney W. Grimes" writes: : Because KB MB and GB mean different things than KiB MiB and GiB. : : K = 10^3, Ki = 2^10 : M = 10^6 Mi = 2^20 : G = 10^9 Gi = 2^30 kB and kiB are the proper abreviations, not KB and KiB. I don't know if miB or MiB is correct, likely MiB. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message