On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 04:21:05PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>
> The first one changes because it's over 1 megabyte, but the second
> one does not change. So you get:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 gad staff 1951k Dec 11 03:39 asciiedit.c
> -rw-r--r-- 1 gad staff 999123 Dec 11 03:39 asciisrch.c
>
> Okay now, how many people can look at those lines and immediately
> see that the first file is "about" twice the size of the second
> file? Probably nobody, not without pulling out a calculator. The
Point taken. What about:
-rw-r--r-- 1 gad staff 1951k Dec 11 03:39 asciiedit.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 gad staff 999123 Dec 11 03:39 asciisrch.c
or:
-rw-r--r-- 1 gad staff 1951k Dec 11 03:39 asciiedit.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 gad staff 999123 Dec 11 03:39 asciisrch.c
I can see Oliver's proposal making a lot of sense here, the more
since we avoid the discussion about K/M/G/T being base 2 or 10.
Joerg
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