Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help.

[Eric S. Raymond]

Steven Cole <[e-mail]>:
> I've obviously been wrong all along on this, but I had always assumed
> (incorrectly) that mega when applied to binary things really meant 
> 2 to the 20th, and that the confusion came from disk manufacturers who
> chose whatever definition made their products seem bigger.
> 
> So, if we really want to be pedantically correct, let's all swallow 
> _really_ hard, and go all the way on this.  Or, are the UGLY changes
> below actually technically wrong?

Alas, I don't know.
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