Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help.

Bernd Eckenfels
2001-12-22T11:34:10Z

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.

Greetings
Bernd
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