[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: main/DOCS/man/en mplayer.1,1.1104,1.1105

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 10:59:32PM +0200, Paul TT wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 15:11:26 +0200 (CEST)
> syncmail at mplayerhq.hu (Diego Biurrun CVS) wrote:
> 
> > CVS change done by Diego Biurrun CVS
> > 
> > Update of /cvsroot/mplayer/main/DOCS/man/en
> > In directory mail:/var2/tmp/cvs-serv7582/man/en
> > 
> > Modified Files:
> > 	mplayer.1 
> > Log Message:
> > spelling/grammar fixes
> > 
> > 
> 
> mhhhh.....
> kBit is right as kbit if kbit=1000bit
> but:
> KByte is right if 1024Byte, Byte should be capitalized, so for the K (K=1024, k=1000)
> kByte=1000Byte
> KByte=1024Byte
> 
> 
> so it depends by the sentence.

Nonsense. Lowercase and uppercase are the same, but k should normally
be lowercase. When used with bytes k means 1024, and with bits or
other physical or nonaligned measurements k means 1000. :) Or it means
whatever makes sense in the context. :))

Rich