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On the internet the usage of b and B for bits or bytes is inconsistent.

Lowercase b seems to be used for either, and upperace B is more often
used to mean bytes but usege for bits also exists.

I am not aware of any standard that would mandate one or other use.

Consequently, spelling out the whole word in the output or adding
explanation in documentation is the only way to make sure the output is
interpreted correctly.

To save space on small screens only alter documentation and the bytes
label without prefixes/suffixes.

While at it change uppercase K to lowercase k to correctly spell the
kilo- prefix.

Fixes: #261

Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@suse.de>
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Michal Suchanek
2023-08-28 13:00:10 +02:00
committed by Andreas Gocht-Zech
parent b9abb65df0
commit 08524d2740
3 changed files with 8 additions and 6 deletions
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src/cui.cpp
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@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ const char *COLUMN_FORMAT_RECEIVED = "%11.3f";
// All descriptions are padded to 6 characters in length with spaces
const char *const desc_view_mode[VIEWMODE_COUNT] = {
"KB/s ", "KB ", "B ", "MB ", "MB/s ", "GB/s "};
"kB/s ", "kB ", "bytes ", "MB ", "MB/s ", "GB/s "};
constexpr char FILE_SEPARATOR = '/';

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src/main.cpp
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@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ static void help(bool iserror) {
output << " -x : bughunt mode - implies tracemode.\n";
output << " -d : delay for update refresh rate in seconds. default "
"is 1.\n";
output << " -v : view mode (0 = KB/s, 1 = total KB, 2 = total B, 3 "
"= total MB, 4 = MB/s, 5 = GB/s). default is 0.\n";
output << " -v : view mode (0 = kB/s, 1 = total kB, 2 = "
"total bytes, 3 = total MB, 4 = MB/s, 5 = GB/s). default is 0.\n";
output << " -c : number of updates. default is 0 (unlimited).\n";
output << " -t : tracemode.\n";
// output << " -f : format of packets on interface, default is
@@ -67,8 +67,8 @@ static void help(bool iserror) {
output << " r: sort by RECEIVED traffic\n";
output << " l: display command line\n";
output << " b: display the program basename instead of the fullpath\n";
output << " m: switch between total (KB, B, MB) and throughput (KB/s, MB/s, "
"GB/s) mode\n";
output << " m: switch between total (kB, bytes, MB) and throughput (kB/s, "
" MB/s, GB/s) mode\n";
}
void quit_cb(int /* i */) {