Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 00:59:35 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: MichaelV@EDIFECS.COM (Michael VanLoon) Cc: drosih@rpi.edu, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Additional option to ls -l for large files Message-ID: <200001130859.AAA31395@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <8070C3A4E99ED211A63200105A19B99B3174B1@mail.edifecs.com> from Michael VanLoon at "Jan 13, 2000 00:14:02 am"
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Sorry, I will slow down my reading and stop flipping 2^10 into 10^3. > From: Rodney W. Grimes [mailto:freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net] > Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 9:53 PM > > > [in regards to a previous post preferring base-10 for K and M units...] > >> I'm sorry but I would find it non-obvious and more confusing. When ls or > a > >> similar disk/memory utility tells me xxxK or xxxM, I would expect it to > be > >> in 2^10 or 2^20 units. To appear otherwise would surprise me. > > >I guess you get suprised a lot then. The only folks that I know of who > >regulary use K and M as base 10 when talking about disk and memory are > >the disk drive manufactures. > > > >Does you machine have 128MB or 134MB. You must have missed this earlier > >in the thread.... > > > >All of the boot time reporting is in 2^20 MB: > >ad0: 3079MB (6306048 sectors), 6256 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S > > > >Due the math if you doubt me, oh, and Quantum calls this a 3.2G disk > >drive :-) > > I think if you re-read my post you'll find that we are in vehement > agreement. I have doned the cap <|:-) -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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