From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Feb 21 0: 7:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from pittgoth.com (14.zlnp1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.149.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8F0137B416 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 00:07:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from pittgoth.com (zbay5-20.fyi.net [206.80.158.20]) by pittgoth.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1L4jvv21130; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 23:46:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from darklogik@pittgoth.com) Message-ID: <3C747C85.6080107@pittgoth.com> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 23:50:13 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010628 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: Michael Wardle , parv , Giorgos Keramidas , Wouter Van Hemel , doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: inconsistent use of data units References: <3C743707.3080505@adacel.com> <20020221003116.GA11893@hades.hell.gr> <3C744D39.1020308@adacel.com> <1014256250.304.66.camel@cocaine> <3C745639.8080509@adacel.com> <20020221022225.GA12900@hades.hell.gr> <3C745D8B.9090808@adacel.com> <20020221025358.GB2678@moo.holy.cow> <3C7464B4.70004@adacel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I very much agree on this, it is just as easy to spell out the entire word megabyte, kilobyte, and soforth... Why not just add this to the primer (which probly needs a bit of updating anyway) and then put it to use in the current documentation? If everyone agrees on that, I will even whip up a patch tomarrow or the next so that it may be added to the FDP. Comments? -- Tom Rhodes Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > > >I'd prefer some FDP introduction explain this and that "B" means "byte" >and "b" means "bit", though I wouldn't mind a requirement to use the >full words except where the meaning is clear from the context or a note. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message