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Date:      Wed, 13 Feb 2002 07:00:03 -0800 (PST)
From:      Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/34834: "fix" of du(1) and -h
Message-ID:  <200202131500.g1DF03v00561@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/34834; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/34834: "fix" of du(1) and -h
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 14:57:10 +0000

 *ALL* the standard one-letter prefixes strictly denote powers of 10, so 
 being precious over k/K doesn't really help much. See
 http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html
 and
 http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
 for the applicable standards.
 
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