On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 05:17:24AM +0200, Zeljko Jovanovic wrote: > I was just reading some random man pages, and noticed a few places > where "Mb" should probably be changed to "MB", since the intended > meaning is Megabytes, not Megabits. > > In the base system, these are sort(1) and ld(1). I have only a few > additional packages installed, but found it also in > /usr/local/man/cat3/pcrestack.0 > > The "Mb" abbreviation is also used in pf-related pages: > hostapd.conf(5), iked.conf(5), ipsec.conf(5), pf.conf(5), in the > meaning Megabits per second. So it could be more correctly written > as Mb/s (or at least Mbps). However, since the Mb word, in the > meaning Mb/s, is already part of pf syntax, I suppose it is going to > stay that way. :) > > Cheers, > > Zeljko Jovanovic >
at first i feared a can of worms, but actually it's not looking so bad. of the two pages in base you point out, i think sort(1) definitely needs changed. ld(1) is 3rd party, however, so i'm not touching that. of the "pf-related pages"...i think hostapd.conf(5) could be clearer, but i need to check with reyk. the other ones seem fine. that is, "Mb" is the suffix, and it's explained clearly that it represents "megabits per second". actually our pages use Mbps and Mb/s pretty consistently, and i think both are fine. there's one more: hp300's mem(4) page talks about an hp300 with "8Mb of memory", and i'm checking what that means. as far as packages, i doubt the man pages would be changed. i guess you could talk to the individual port maintainer if you wanted. jmc
