From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 12 3:22:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from tank.skynet.be (tank.skynet.be [195.238.2.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7951914F2D for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 03:22:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by tank.skynet.be (8.9.3/odie-relay-v1.0) with ESMTP id MAA10971; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 12:22:43 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@foxbert.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 12:09:11 +0100 To: Mike Fisher , "Rodney W. Grimes" From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Additional option to ls -l for large files Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 7:57 PM -0500 2000/1/11, Mike Fisher wrote: > Why not use Knuth's (good) suggestion for differentiating these prefixes? > > http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news99.html Blech. The prefixes should be aware of the nature of the term to which they are being applied. For bytes, it is natural to use base two exponents, and therefore there should be no confusion between KB = 1024 bytes and km = 1000 meters. I really think it is (or should be) that simple. Now I guess I'm going to have to go devote a web page to this topic and tell people about it. I'm getting really sick and bloody tired of all this BS.... Of course, this is totally unrelated to -current, so follow-ups should be sent to -chat. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ____________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News & FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message