On 11/15/11 07:29, abdallah clark wrote: > Maybe it's a manpower issue We are short of people and time, yes. I've found your comments to be helpful in pointing out places where the --help output (man pages) could be clearer. We've fixed the SIZE sentence and I'd like to go onto the next issue. In your long message about this <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=9939#17> you write:
Also, when I run <ls -alsi --si>, the results have <K> or <M> or <G> as a suffix on the filesize amounts, but the similar command <ls -alsih> gives <k> or <m> or <g>. That's not the behavior I get. First, I get uppercase M and G with either option set. Second, I get lowercase k with --si, and uppercase K with -h. But this is because SI uses lowercase k, whereas binary prefixes use uppercase K (yes, it's silly, but it's standard :-). The above quotation seems to be more a complaint about the *behavior* than about the *documentation*, and so I hope I've explained the behavior. This explanation is also in the full manual. I don't see a need for correcting the --help output (man pages) as they're intended to be succinct summaries of the full manual, more reminders to the expert than introduction to novices as it were.
