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Subject: Re: small usr.bin/find patch
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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.