Re: encapsulating directory operations

On 2025-05-20, Paul Edwards <mutazilah@gmail.com> wrote:

"Richard Heathfield" <rjh@cpax.org.uk> wrote in message
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If you're allowed to get all uppity about 9-letter filenames
(which uppityness I absolutely understand and respect), I reserve
the right to insist on KB, MB, and GB instead of these
nonsensical new inventions. The world knows full well that bit
and byte prefixes are measured in powers of 2, and we don't need
an intrusive iota irresponsibly interceding itself into initialisms.

>
There are places in computing where powers of 2 are not
used, and sometimes it is important.

"640 is not a power of 2 unless you're a DOS user."

-- Murray Goldberg (in a lecture, decades ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Goldberg

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