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) +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | Digest version: http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help-digest/ | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives +------------------------------------------------------------------------
