From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 11 15:29:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BB7714D77 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 15:29:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA66118; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 18:28:48 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200001112249.OAA25732@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <200001112249.OAA25732@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 18:29:08 -0500 To: "Rodney W. Grimes" , MichaelV@EDIFECS.COM (Michael VanLoon) From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Additional option to ls -l for large files Cc: joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz, current@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 2:49 PM -0800 1/11/00, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > >Another thing that ``works for me''. Only make it ki, mi, and gi > > >to fit with the new binary mode international appreviation standards, > > >unless of cource you use base 10 divisors. > > > > Why not KB, MB or GB, since that's what you're actually reporting? > >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 personally, I'd just as soon use K, M, and G and have it mean the base-10 values. If I'm looking at a decimal number for one file (because it's small enough), I don't want a base-2 version of the similar number for some other (larger) file in the same listing. (ie, whatever letters you use, please just divide the values by 1000 instead of 1024). --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message