From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Feb 20 15:50:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from arnie.adacel.com.au (arnie.adacel.com.au [203.36.26.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 174B837B404 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 15:50:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 18374 invoked from network); 21 Feb 2002 00:05:51 -0000 Received: from intmail.adacel.com (HELO proton.adacel.com.au) (root@203.8.85.90) by arnie.adacel.com.au with SMTP; 21 Feb 2002 00:05:51 -0000 Received: from hera.wodonga.adacel.com.au ([192.168.75.251]) by proton.adacel.com.au (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA23459 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 10:52:38 +1100 (EST) Received: (qmail 7578 invoked from network); 20 Feb 2002 23:44:07 -0000 Received: from selene.wodonga.adacel.com.au (HELO adacel.com) (192.168.75.20) by hera.wodonga.adacel.com.au with SMTP; 20 Feb 2002 23:44:07 -0000 Message-ID: <3C743707.3080505@adacel.com> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 10:53:43 +1100 From: Michael Wardle Organization: Adacel Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204 X-Accept-Language: en-au, en-us, en-gb, en, eo, de- MIME-Version: 1.0 To: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: inconsistent use of data units Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi. The FreeBSD handbook does not consistently use one notation for data sizes. For instance, in the Install FAQ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html sometimes "K" is used, sometimes "kB" is used. Likewise, sometimes "T" is used, sometimes "TB" is used. There is a standard on how to represent data sizes here: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html I suggest that the document is updated to consistently use this standard. Also note, that there should always be a space between the number and the unit (e.g. "640 kB, not "640kB"). Regards -- MICHAEL WARDLE | WORK +61-2-6024-2699 SGI Desktop & Admin Software | MOBILE +61-415-439-838 Adacel Technologies Limited | WEB http://www.adacel.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message