X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" To: References: <200802181525.m1IFPlBS035653@member.newsguy.com> <001601c8729a$8b72dd70$020aa8c0@DFW5RB41> Subject: RE: Cygwin setup: DL rate should show as kB/s not kb/s ? Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:03:13 -0600 Message-ID: <000d01c87425$890afdb0$020aa8c0@DFW5RB41> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com > From: Bill Meier > > Gary R. Van Sickle writes: > > > > > > From: Bill Meier > > > or maybe KB/s for kilobytes/sec ? > > > > > > > It should be an option, but that begs an "Options..." dialog, which > > doesn't exist. > > > > > Unfortunately I didn't express myself clearly in my original message. > > The numeric DLL rate shown by the Cygwin setup program is > actually in units of K Bytes/sec and thus either kB/s or KB/s > should be used as the text following the numeric rate. > Ohhh, oh oh oh, ok. Yeah, then I suppose kB/s is the correct way to go, if my SI serves me right (and please, no "kibbis", lordy). My point stands though: it would be a useful addition to have this user-selectable, as in some other file transfer programs. But my counterpoint also stands: no options dialog. > Looking at the code I also note that maybe the 2nd sprintf > should be changed to use %03.1f to be consistent with the 1st > sprintf ... > Ooof, still using C string manipulation I see. That brings back some memories.... -- Gary R. Van Sickle -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/