Bastian Venthur wrote: > I agree with the "sounds stupid" part, although I don't belive this is a > valid argument. It's a perfectly valid argument for me to use to ignore a bad standard. If the standard makes me talk funny, I will ignore it or make fun of it. (Bibibibibibibibibibib.) > 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. > On the other hand, we have the chance to avoid user confusion and follow > a standard that (according to the wikipedia article) many already > adopted, like the GNU core utils, the linux kernel, ifconfig, launchpad > and gparted and many standards bodies and technical organizations like > IEEE, CIPM, NIST, and SAE. Note that wikipedia is rarely perfectly accurate on technical matters. And coreutils does not consistently use the SI prefixes. -- see shy jo
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