Re: feature request: sort by human-readable disk sizes

[James Youngman]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 5:46 PM, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Mart, let me know if you can assign copyright to the FSF,
>> and I'll send you the paperwork.
>>
>> Paul?
>
> Thanks, Mart.  Nobody has come up with a better solution, so let's go
> with Mart's, with one proviso: it should be documented a bit more
> conservatively, in that the documentation shouldn't promise any
> particular behavior for unnormalized numbers.  How about putting
> something like this in the documentation, instead of the last
> paragraph of what was proposed in
> <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.bugs/6793>?


Did this ever move forward?

Thanks,
James.