On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2009/05/10 22:48, Jacob L. Leifman wrote: ... >> More likely the M example was written by someone that is familiar with >> one of the other variants of dd (such as possibly GNU). A quick check >> of some other systems, including Linux flavors, shows me that while >> they also require the b, c, and w suffixes in lower case, the M suffix >> is expected to be upper case. So perhaps that one (and only that one) >> should be allowed (or required?) in upper case. > > GNU dd also requires upper case letters for G, T, P, E, Z and Y (are > they making this up as they go along? oh wait, yes they are...)
That, or they followed the ISO spec for unit prefixes, which uses caps for prefixes larger than kilo. Of course, it's lot like someone intends bs=8m to be a request for a blocksize of 8 millibytes.... Philip Guenther
