On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:05:38AM -0400, Ian Murdock wrote: > On 5/10/07, Frank Van Der Linden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Peter C. Norton wrote: > > > You may continue to be snarky if ls -h became a common solaris > > > invocation, but I doubt your users would be upset at no longer having > > > to multiply by 2 to get K, and to get the size rounded to MB, GB, > > > etc. > > > > I'm not sure what you mean here. Are you talking about making -h the > > default? I doubt that would be standards compliant.. > > As I'll say till I'm blue in the face, I'm as obsessed with > compatibility as anyone here. But I have to ask: What exactly > would break if -h *were* the default behavior?
As Joerg pointed out, that'd be POSIX compatibility, but I wouldn't
really expect someone with a Linux background to understand that point,
which is where I am very worried at the prospect of the project you're
talking about, no offence intended.
Ceri
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