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Date:      Tue, 17 Aug 1999 14:41:59 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
To:        Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>
Cc:        rssh@grad.kiev.ua, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Explain the output of ls
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.990817143736.18922D-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19990817113407.A17364@wopr.caltech.edu>

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On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Matthew Hunt wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 02:18:56PM -0400, Zhihui Zhang wrote:
> 
> > > Maybe you have BLOCKSIZE=K in your environment?
> > 
> > Yes.  I tried "setenv BLOCKSIZE=512" without success (I am using tcsh).
> 
> The syntax for csh and tcsh does not have the equals sign.  Try
> "setenv BLOCKSIZE 512".
> 
> I have confirmed that ls(1) reports 512-blocks when BLOCKSIZE is
> unset or set to 512, and 1k-blocks when BLOCKSIZE is set to K.
> 
Thanks.  You are right.

-Zhihui



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