From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Feb 21 17:17:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B077937B400 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 17:17:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a132.otenet.gr [212.205.215.132]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g1M1Gnj8029880; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 03:16:50 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1M1GPw07199; Fri, 22 Feb 2002 03:16:25 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 03:16:25 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Michael Wardle Cc: Wouter Van Hemel , doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: inconsistent use of data units Message-ID: <20020222011624.GB6716@hades.hell.gr> References: <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> <3C74803F.4090004@adacel.com> <1014270449.303.117.camel@cocaine> <3C7490E9.3050100@adacel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C7490E9.3050100@adacel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i 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 On 2002-02-21 17:17, Michael Wardle wrote: > Wouter Van Hemel wrote: > > >If we decide to comply, all occurrences in the code should be changed too, > >as not to create a bigger chaos. We simply can't use KiB in our > >documentation, and ignore the difference with the real-life topics we are > >documenting. This is a decision that can't be taken lightly... Surely not > >for something that might never find steady ground in the 'real world' (no > >matter how convenient or correct). > > ... > > Are you saying this because you think the core code team won't like the > proposal? :-P As the documentation is supposed to, err, `document' the code, using similar ways to refer to units in both the code and the documentation seems a bit rational. But that's IMHO, and bearing in mind the minor changes I've done to the source, should be taken with a few grains of salt. Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message