From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 12 3:23: 2 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 026C215517 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 03:22:57 -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 MAA10949; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 12:22:38 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@foxbert.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200001112314.QAA07511@harmony.village.org> References: <200001112249.OAA25732@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <200001112314.QAA07511@harmony.village.org> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 12:02:33 +0100 To: Warner Losh , "Rodney W. Grimes" From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Additional option to ls -l for large files Cc: MichaelV@EDIFECS.COM (Michael VanLoon), joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz, 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 4:14 PM -0700 2000/1/11, Warner Losh wrote: > kB and kiB are the proper abreviations, not KB and KiB. I don't know > if miB or MiB is correct, likely MiB. I always thought it was "k/m/b = 1,000/1,000,000/1,000,000,000" and "K/M/G = 2^10/2^20/2^30". Or was this just some convention I learned somewhere that I mistakenly thought of as an actual accepted rule? Does anyone actually believe that people will actually adopt terms like "Mibabytes"? -- 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