Sorry to have been so abrupt!

I'll be back in one form or another just as soon as I settle in with the seismic
folks.

later,
frank.letts

Glenn Cole wrote:

> 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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