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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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