From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Feb 13 7: 0:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C699637B417 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 07:00:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1DF03v00561; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 07:00:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 07:00:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200202131500.g1DF03v00561@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Bob Bishop Subject: Re: bin/34834: "fix" of du(1) and -h Reply-To: Bob Bishop Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/34834; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Bob Bishop 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. -- Bob Bishop +44 (0)118 977 4017 rb@gid.co.uk fax +44 (0)118 989 4254 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message