On Monday 11 June 2007 21:21, Joey Hess wrote: > Bastian Venthur wrote: > > What I don't believe is your 80 colums argument. Could > > you please name a few of the *many* programs which would have to drop > > information, precision, or significantly change their display to use the > > "KiB" unit? > > iftop, top, ls, and df are the first few to come to mind.
Both ls and df produce very variable-width output where one extra "i" is no big deal. Besides, they don't use prefixes by default. top uses "m" for mebi (and nothing for kibi), which is *completely* wrong - but on the other hand "m" can't be confused with "M" for mega-. The default layout seems to have enough space left, but, just to be sure, perhaps we can make an exception if it's well documented? iftop uses powers of 2 except if logarithmic scale for the bar graphs is turned on. I think it would be better if it used powers of 10 throughout. There is a comment: /* This 1024 vs 1000 stuff is just plain evil */ None of these put a space between the number and the unit, as is proper, but that I don't think can be reasonably expected. -- Magnus Holmgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks) "Exim is better at being younger, whereas sendmail is better for Scrabble (50 point bonus for clearing your rack)" -- Dave Evans
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