On 08/02/2002 08:30:59 Henrik van Ginhoven wrote:
>On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 08:54:06AM +0100, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: >> Wget currently uses "KB" as abbreviation for "kilobyte". In a Debian >> bug report someone suggested that "kB" should be used because it is >> "more correct". This is the kind of stuff that leads to month-long flamewars :-) > >"kB" rather than "KB"? I think whoever filed that bugreport got it wrong, as >far as I know "kB" would always mean 1000 (bytes), since "k" = thousand, and >never ever 1024. If he'd said "KiB" I'd agree with him to a certain degree, >but "kB" simply can't be right. Note that we can claim the distinction that k=1000 and K=1024 That won't work with 1E6 vs 2**20 because SI uses uppercase M for 1E6. > >Rather than me trying to sum it up and risk typing something wrong, this >page seems to address the issue well: > >http://www.romulus2.com/articles/guides/misc/bitsbytes.shtml > Please, no kibibytes :-) Maybe wget should just count 512-byte "blocks", a la df. That would improve the understandability of the display ... NOT But it would keep the terminally anal-retentives at bay :-) Seriously, just ignore it. I can certainly live with 5% "experimental error" ( 2**20 = 1.0486E6 ) at megabyte level. -- Csaba Ráduly, Software Engineer Sophos Anti-Virus email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sophos.com US Support: +1 888 SOPHOS 9 UK Support: +44 1235 559933
