Re: lynx-dev when, where, why "kb/sec"?

[Bela Lubkin]

Philip Webb wrote:

> 980910 Bela Lubkin wrote: 
> > I like the counter, but I wish it was expressed in bytes, not Kbytes.
> > I would much rather see:
> > 
> >   Read 36352 of 87401 bytes of data, 18176 bytes/sec.
> > 
> > than the current:
> > 
> >   Read 35 of 85 KB of data. 17 kb/sec.
>  
> i heartily agree: there's no reason to truncate things like this
> (in any case it should be  Kb/s  for true SI style).

"Kb" would be kilo-bits, no?  "KB" for kilo-bytes?

If they've actually "standardized" on "Kb" for Kbytes, that's a standard
I'm going to have to consistently violate...

>Bela<