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Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 21:18:08 +0100 (MET)
From: Pozsar Balazs <pozsy@sch.bme.hu>
To: Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@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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On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 11:24:17AM +0100, Pozsar Balazs wrote:
> > Why on earth is it good to develop misunderstandings and inconsistency
> > with well- and widely-known historical abbrevs?
>
> There is no well understood abrev. for power of two units, thats why
> somebody had to introduce them.
>
> Actually it was not my Idea, but since I got multiple error reports for
> multible writings (and that even while the original count is visible in the
> ouput) I decided to go with the standard.

What error reports do you receive?

This might be a standard, but _it_is_not_adopted_anywhere! (at least I
haven't seen it anywhere (I might be blind)).
I would rather call standard something which is adopted in real life.

-- 
Balazs Pozsar

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