Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 09:28:55 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/ppp i4b.c Message-ID: <20000818092855.C19185@pavilion.net> In-Reply-To: <20000816223204.D327@hand.dotat.at>; from dot@dotat.at on Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 10:32:04PM %2B0000 References: <200008161633.KAA05164@harmony.village.org> <200008162017.NAA15442@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <20000816223204.D327@hand.dotat.at>
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On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 10:32:04PM +0000, 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. Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today? Technical Manager Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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