Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: [Ethereal-users] Questions on using ethere al / tethereal

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 01:38:14 -0700
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 07:04:19AM -0600, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> Also consider the standard SI units. e.g.
> 	5 MB = 5 * 1000 * 1000
> 	5 MiB = 5 * 1024 * 1024

"Consider" in what sense?  Consider requiring the "B" and "iB"?  Should
it also require the capital letters?  It seems a bit clunky to me to
require "-C5MiB" and "-C5MB" rather than "-C5M" and "-C5m".

He's already proposing that those units be used - "-C5M" is 5 MiB, and
"-C5m" is 5 MB (although he called 5 MiB "5 MB"), he's just not
proposing using those exact sequences of letters.