Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.7's putnum drops data if too close to end of line?

[David Levine]

Tom wrote:

> What I'd expect to happen, and what did happen before 1.7, is that the
> size information would be there and would just be truncated if it didn't
> fit in the available output width.  For instance, the last message shown
> above has size 4467 so it ought to look like
>
> 89722  12/03 01:21  Pavel Stehule              hack  pg_dumpall -r -c try to 
> drop user postgres (446

The change was intentional, IIRC.  Better to truncate than show
part of a number.  The parentheses in your format would reveal it,
but without them, the output could be misleading with truncation.

I just noticed that kilo and kibi don't truncate.

David