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Date:      Tue, 11 Jan 2000 19:02:46 -0500
From:      Donn Miller <dmmiller@cvzoom.net>
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Additional option to ls -l for large files
Message-ID:  <387BC4A6.3B7DF57A@cvzoom.net>
References:  <200001112249.OAA25732@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <v04210102b4a16c6972c4@[128.113.24.47]>

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Garance A Drosihn wrote:

[trimmed list of recipients to just -current]

> 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).

Or else we could put both in.  There could be either a command-line
option or env variable set that selects between decimal (true metric)
or powers of two (computer metric, or whatever).

- Donn


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