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- Submitted-by: djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie)
-
- [Reposting rms's message from gnu.announce for a wider distribution. -djm]
-
- Last week users poured out into the streets of the network to rally to
- the cause of 1024-byte blocks for measuring disk space. When people
- finally chose sides, it was amazing how few actually stood with the
- POSIX Central Committee and its apparatchiks. Only 20 out of 750
- supported the 512ist coup.
-
- In the aftermath, the GNU system has declared its independence,
- throwing off the power of the POSIX party. We are rapidly moving to
- eliminate all vestage of 512ist domination. We have already taken
- direct control of df, du, and several other programs, converting them
- to use 1024-byte units for measuring output, and to provide ways to
- specify input quantities in units of K.
-
- We promise to respect the rights of minorities--even tiny ones. So
- there will be options to request output in units of 512. Even those
- who cannot bear to deviate from the POSIX party line will be provided
- for--they can define the environment variable POSIX_ME_HARDER.
-
- But what we really hope is that the POSIX party will itself modernize
- its hardline position, and add its support to 1024ist reform. If the
- KGB could do it, there must at least be a chance for POSIX.
- --
- David J. MacKenzie <djm@eng.umd.edu> <djm@ai.mit.edu>
-
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- Volume-Number: Volume 24, Number 84
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