On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Eric Lowe wrote: > Clearly this is NOT the behavior you would want when you are > expressing KB in the computer sense, etc.
"KiB" is pretty clear, whether you're aware of SI/IEC or not. If you are, it's even "more clear". Using the same letters for both SI (10^(3**n)) and 2^(10*n) prefixes is /not/ clear. E.g. go look at a listing of file sizes using, say, Apache and then ls -lh. Same letters but different numbers! (Arg!). I'd strongly urge we use the IEC prefixes for 2^(10*n). Failing that, if we must perpetuate the abuse of those prefixes, despite there being better options now, please do *not* claim the output uses SI prefixes in the man-pages. I'd vote against a 'B' option on the basis that it would hard-code this decision in applications forever more. --paulj
