From owner-cvs-all Fri Aug 18 1:29: 0 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from genius.systems.pavilion.net (genius.systems.pavilion.net [212.74.1.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4FBC37B424; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 01:28:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by genius.systems.pavilion.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id 4C9189B2A; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 09:28:55 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 09:28:55 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Tony Finch Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" , Warner Losh , Brian Somers , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/ppp i4b.c Message-ID: <20000818092855.C19185@pavilion.net> References: <200008161633.KAA05164@harmony.village.org> <200008162017.NAA15442@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <20000816223204.D327@hand.dotat.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20000816223204.D327@hand.dotat.at>; from dot@dotat.at on Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 10:32:04PM +0000 X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, Lees House, 21-23 Dyke Road, Brighton, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 10:32:04PM +0000, Tony Finch wrote: > > >When talking about storage is when you get the miss-usage of k/K and > >m/M meaning 1024 and 1048576. > > I prefer to use K for 1024 (as opposed to k and 1000). A pity you > can't do that for M. Of course it gets even worse when you want to differentiate between bytes and bits, i.e 64K bytes or 64K bits. Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today? Technical Manager Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message