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- From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
- Subject: Re: Simple AWK question.....
- Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
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- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.192332.19720@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 19:23:32 GMT
- Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
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- From the keyboard of guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris):
- :SV-like "du" commands don't *report* the number of kB, they report the
- :number of half-kB.
-
- Can anyone explain WTF POSIX.2 decided that utilities should report
- things in demikilobytes instead of real k which we all are more
- likely to think in?
-
- --tom
- --
- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
- Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to
- pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time.
- --Larry Wall in <1992Aug13.192357.15731@netlabs.com>
-