Stan writes:

> UGLY, and highly misleading!  That's why the decimal point was invented,
> and why the concept of putting the units next to the value was invented!
>
> Which is more clear:
>
> ACCOUNT=  SYS         GROUP=  OTHER
> FILENAME  CODE   ------------LOGICAL RECORD------------ -------SPACE-------
>                    SIZE  TYP           EOF        LIMIT    K BYTES  M BYTES
> TINY                80B  FA              1            1          4        1
> BIG               1024B  FA           1024         1023        256        1
>
> or:
[snip]
>
> 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.

I agree.

Though I find it interesting, if amusing, that rounding is still involved.
After all, 1 MB != 1000 * 1 KB.

--Glenn Cole
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