Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:41:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: small usr.bin/find patch Message-ID: <permail-20090624094151f0889e8400007f8d-a_best01@message-id.uni-muenster.de> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906172325310.36849@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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hmmm...but dd e.g. uses lowercase instead of upercase letters to indicate kilobyte, megabyte and so on. isn't there some unix/posix/whatever standard telling app developers what to use? Wojciech Puchar schrieb am 2009-06-17: > >>cheers. > >Are you sure this is wise? after all 125 millibytes would be 1 bit.. > Agree. While lots of people use m instead of M and b instead of B, > this is not right to correct proper behavior to improper just for > them.
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