On Wed Sep 1 10, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Alexander Best <arun...@freebsd.org> writes: > > just having a quick look around to see, if anybody would be interested in > > fetch -B and fetch -S accepting humanized numbers using expand_number()? > > I can understand it for -B, but not for -S, since in the common case (by > 1023 to 1, assuming a random distribution) the argument to -S can not be > expressed in [kMGTEP]B.
you're absolutely correct there. i didn't really think about it. i just thought -B might profit from expand_number() amnd saw that -S was also taking a byte value as argument so i added it to my previous mail. i should have read the description for -S more carefully. ;) since you're the originator of fetch(1): should i send you a patch to add expand_numer() to the -B switch or do you think fetch is better off as it is now without humanised numbers? i'm not sure, but i think fetch(1) is BSD specific so no POSIX regulations need to be taken into consideration. but you probably know more about this matter. cheers. alex > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no -- a13x _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
