Re: Configure.help editorial policy

Rik van Riel
2001-12-21T21:10:38Z

On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 09:57:11AM +1300, Chris Wedgwood wrote:

> > Accept that KB and GB are *wrong* (this isn't a statement of opinion
> > but rather of fact [1]) and then choose whether or not Linux
> > documentation should be wrong or right.
>
> Can you send me replacements for all the documentation I've got that
> mentions GB or KB then? I wouldn't want to be non-compliant.

And how about my 17 M-KiByte disk ?

(yes, 17 million kibibytes, plus or minus whatever the amount of
disk space is the factory's low-level format found ... probably
as much as an error as getting the exact word in the manual)

cheers,

Rik
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