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- From: kimcm@login.dkuug.dk (Kim Chr. Madsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: Simple AWK question.....
- Message-ID: <kimcm.714514869@login.dkuug.dk>
- Date: 22 Aug 92 20:21:09 GMT
- References: <l96frkINNsom@phad.hsc.usc.edu> <hm342st.714305966@unidui> <14179@auspex-gw.auspex.com> <1992Aug20.192332.19720@news.eng.convex.com>
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- tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
-
- >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?
-
- Because it's a political committee before anything else, with
- participants from the largest vendors, who like a status-quo approach
- (if we standardize what is we don't have to change anything) and many
- of the participants are SysV people... (sigh)...
-
- Along the lines of standardisation (sp?) why can't the various
- committees realize that a few (able) people can do a lot better, once
- all arguments have been said, instead of having large groups of people
- trying to agree on something they possible never will agree on because
- of political issues.
-
- Kim Chr. Madsen
-