Scott McClellan writes:

> So in a sense
> the case we are worried about is the case where there is very little
> editing (maybe just trimming leading blanks) and then passing the
> output to BINARY. This seems to be solved by the sugestion to prepend
> the unit of measure (eg: KB, MB, GB, or TB) to the the front of the
> field.

So the big question is in how that field is parsed.

In the scenario above (skipping leading blanks), the prepended MB, etc.
works.

In the scenario where chars are skipped until a number is found....
Well, you can't displease all programs all of the time.
Or something like that. ;)

Then again, it's easier to code "skip blanks" that it is
to code "skip non-digits", so that appears to be more likely.
I just have a difficult time mixing bytes and sectors in the
same column.

--Glenn Cole
  Software al dente, Inc.
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