Hello Jonathan!

From the "A big sort..." thread :

JP> SORT     Enhanced, 32-bit, replacement for OS/2's 16-bit SORT
JP>          command.
JP>          Can sort up to the size of available virtual memory and
JP>          has no 64KiB limit.  Can also sort files named on the
                      ^^^


JP> Here it is sorting a 686KiB text file, sent to its standard input
                            ^^^
JP> (I could just as easily have passed the name of the file as an
JP> argument to SORT.), with the output piped into a word count program
JP> (so that I don't have to paste 686KiB of text into this message!):
                                      ^^^

Does "KiB" mean 1024 bytes?

I wrote elsewhere, a few months ago, that we need new symbols for the
powers of 1024, because the difference with the powers of 1000
becomes more and more intolerable, and 'k' (kilo), 'M' (mega), 'G'
(giga), 'T' (tera) are really defined as powers of 1000, not powers
of 1024. But I proposed 'ik', 'iM', 'iG', 'iT' as prefixes for the
powers of 1024...

Is there any international effort about this?

  L.A.   
...
 * ATP/OS2 1.42 *  Bonjour de Nantes, Bretagne.


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