From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 13 0:59:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (GndRsh.dnsmgr.net [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3706C14D67 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 00:59:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA31395; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 00:59:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <200001130859.AAA31395@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: Additional option to ls -l for large files In-Reply-To: <8070C3A4E99ED211A63200105A19B99B3174B1@mail.edifecs.com> from Michael VanLoon at "Jan 13, 2000 00:14:02 am" To: MichaelV@EDIFECS.COM (Michael VanLoon) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 00:59:35 -0800 (PST) Cc: drosih@rpi.edu, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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