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From: Bernd Eckenfels <usenet2001-12@lina.inka.de>
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Subject: Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help.
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In article <200112201721.KAA05522@tstac.esa.lanl.gov> you wrote:
> Eric has decided to follow the following standard:
> IEC 60027-2, Second edition, 2000-11, 
> Letter symbols to be used in electrical technology -
> Part 2: Telecommunications and electronics.
> and has changed all the abbreviations for Kilobyte (KB) to KiB,
> Megabyte (MB) to MiB, etc, etc.

I did this for nettools (i.e. ifconfig), too:

          RX bytes:2120660294 (1.9 GiB)  TX bytes:341183013 (325.3 MiB)

man page:

       Since net-tools 1.60-4 ifconfig is printing byte  counters
       with  SI  units. So 1 KiB are 2^10 byte. Note, the numbers
       are truncated to one decimal (which can by quite  a large
       error if you consider 0.1 PiB is 112.589.990.684.262 bytes :)
...
SEE ALSO
       route(8), netstat(8), arp(8), rarp(8), ipchains(8)
       http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html  -  Prefixes
       for binary multiples
				   
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