On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Michael S Hill wrote:

> I apologize for the asinine request, but the suits & beancounters want
> analog to output base 10 prefixes, not base 2.  :^(
>
> I haven't been able to find any directives to alter the output in that
> way; about the nearest (I refuse to call it "best") way is to use RAWBYTES
> to turn off prefixes.  But I have been asked to research whether it is
> possible to report, e.g., 720093212513 bytes as "720 GB" instead of "670
> GB".
>

No. But you can change the name to Gibibytes or whatever it is by editing
the language file. Or you can report the exact number of bytes.

-- 
Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK    http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/
 "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than
  the question of whether a submarine can swim."  (Edsger W. Dijkstra)

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