Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 16:14:02 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: MichaelV@EDIFECS.COM (Michael VanLoon), joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Additional option to ls -l for large files Message-ID: <200001112314.QAA07511@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Jan 2000 14:49:39 PST." <200001112249.OAA25732@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <200001112249.OAA25732@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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In message <200001112249.OAA25732@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> "Rodney W. Grimes" writes: : Because KB MB and GB mean different things than KiB MiB and GiB. : : K = 10^3, Ki = 2^10 : M = 10^6 Mi = 2^20 : G = 10^9 Gi = 2^30 kB and kiB are the proper abreviations, not KB and KiB. I don't know if miB or MiB is correct, likely MiB. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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