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Sletten Kenneth W <[log in to unmask]>
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Sletten Kenneth W <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:48:54 -0700
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Stan on the large files LISTF thing, after Jeff's latest:

>> There are several people who think that supplying both KB
>> and MB on the same line (,20 output) is redundant and
>> wasteful.  Still under .....

> Me too!  At best, it's a useless waste of space.  At worst, the
> user will look at the two columns, and say: *WHY* .....

The more I look at this, the more I think doing both a "K BYTES"
*and* a "M BYTES" column is a mistake, for reasons that were
well-put by Stan.

>> - if a file uses any disk space its KB and MB values will not be 0.
>>   (better to overstate disk usage than to understate it)

> UGLY, and highly misleading!  That's why the decimal point
> was invented,  ......

With all due respect, and no offense intended:
What he said.      :-)

> Which is more clear:
[....SNIP the less-desirable choices....]

<< ACCOUNT=  SYS         GROUP=  OTHER
>  FILENAME  CODE   ------------LOGICAL RECORD------------
> -------SPACE-------
>                     SIZE  TYP           EOF        LIMIT                #
> MB
>  TINY                80B  FA              1            1            0.004
> MB
>  BIG               1024B  FA           1024         1023            1
> MB
>
> Tip: the answer is: the last one.  >>
>
Didn't even need the tip on this one:  ONE glance at the above
right-hand column gives you the numbers you need to know,
*and* an instant mental calibration of the relative size of the
files....  Unless it is just absolutely impossible to deal with a
decimal point in the "SPACE" data, I continue to plug for
Stan's above "the last one"....

Ken Sletten

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