From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 11 16: 3:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ns.cvzoom.net (ns.cvzoom.net [208.226.154.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7311014D94 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 16:03:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmmiller@cvzoom.net) Received: (qmail 26332 invoked from network); 12 Jan 2000 00:03:13 -0000 Received: from lcm97.cvzoom.net (HELO cvzoom.net) (208.230.69.97) by ns.cvzoom.net with SMTP; 12 Jan 2000 00:03:13 -0000 Message-ID: <387BC4A6.3B7DF57A@cvzoom.net> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 19:02:46 -0500 From: Donn Miller X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Additional option to ls -l for large files References: <200001112249.OAA25732@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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