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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 20:00:34 +0100 (CET)
From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: Randolph Bentson <bentson@grieg.holmsjoen.com>
Cc: Matt Bernstein <matt@theBachChoir.org.uk>, Steven Cole <scole@lanl.gov>,
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Subject: Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help.
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On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Randolph Bentson wrote:

> I'm afraid I have to disagree with you.  Not enough people
> know that KB stands for 1000B.  I know through experience that
> KB is often used for 1024B.  The introduction of KiB makes it
> clear that 1024B is intended.

Given the confusion its raised in this thread already, this strikes
me as a particularly bad change. Some of those definitions in
Configure.help have been there for the better part of 10 years
now, and I don't recall anyone in the past few years needing to
ask for clarification.

Is this really that important ?

Dave.

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| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs

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