From owner-cvs-all Fri Aug 18 14: 3:17 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from hand.dotat.at (sfo-gw.covalent.net [207.44.198.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC59C37B422; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 14:03:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fanf by hand.dotat.at with local (Exim 3.15 #3) id 13PtGz-0008lD-00; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 21:01:53 +0000 Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 21:01:53 +0000 From: Tony Finch To: Josef Karthauser 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: <20000818210153.E683@hand.dotat.at> References: <200008161633.KAA05164@harmony.village.org> <200008162017.NAA15442@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <20000816223204.D327@hand.dotat.at> <20000818092855.C19185@pavilion.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000818092855.C19185@pavilion.net> Organization: Covalent Technologies, Inc Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Josef Karthauser wrote: >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. B and b (except that too namy people don't spot that distinction). Tony. -- en oeccget g mtcaa f.a.n.finch v spdlkishrhtewe y dot@dotat.at eatp o v eiti i d. fanf@covalent.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message