Re: [Duplicity-talk] man page, bits and bytes

[edgar . soldin]

I take everything back, state the opposite. But 'Mebibyte' still sounds 
repugnant, standard my a.. ede/duply.net

On 22.02.2011 15:19, address@hidden wrote:
> Seems to be the storage manufacturers customer conning unit 1000 based 
> instead of 1024.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibyte
> 
> yuk, even the name sounds retarded.. :) ede
> 
> On 22.02.2011 15:03, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
>> Good catch.  It should be MB.  Not even sure what a MiB is.
>>
>> ...Ken
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Chris Poole <address@hidden 
>> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi guys,
>>     I noticed that in the man page, --volsize option is specified as
>>     defaulting to '25Mb'.
>>
>>     I think it would be good to change this to '25MB', given that we're
>>     talking about bytes, not bits ;)
>>
>>     (Forgetting even about MiB/MB...)
>>
>>
>>     What do you think?
>>
>>     Cheers,
>>     Chris Poole
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