bugGNU Wget - Bugs: bug #22765, KB not K in progressbar line

 
 

bug #22765: KB not K in progressbar line

Submitted by:  Noël Köthe <nok>
Submitted on:  Fri 28 Mar 2008 05:03:01 PM UTC  
 
Category: User InterfaceSeverity: 3 - Normal
Priority: 5 - NormalStatus: Wont Fix
Privacy: PublicAssigned to: None
Originator Name: Open/Closed: Closed
Release: 1.11Operating System: GNU/Linux
Reproducibility: Every TimeFixed Release: None
Planned Release: NoneRegression: None
Work Required: NonePatch Included: None

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Fri 28 Mar 2008 05:49:49 PM UTC, comment #1:

I'm not sure I agree that this is a problem. K, k, KB, Kb, kb are all often used to refer to the same thing.

I agree that consistency is nice; but in the context of the progress bar, horizontal space is at a premium. I'd prefer to avoid KB where K is more than clear enough.

Note that, now that there's an IEC standard for such things, there's a case to be made that Wget should be using the suffix "Ki" (for "kibibyte") in all its current cases. I'm not convinced that that would result in improved understanding of Wget messages, though.

(To original reporter, if phe reads this:) Please feel free to bring it up on the list for discussion, or to add further commentary here.

Micah Cowan <micahcowan>
Fri 28 Mar 2008 05:03:01 PM UTC, original submission:

Hello,

a minor forwarded bug report from http://bugs.debian.org/472559 (version 1.11.1):

$ wget http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.12/mediawiki-1.12.0.tar.gz
--05:42:01-- http://download.wikimedia.org/mediawiki/1.12/mediawiki-1.12.0.tar.gz
=> `mediawiki-1.12.0.tar.gz'
Resolving download.wikimedia.org... 66.230.200.236
Connecting to download.wikimedia.org[66.230.200.236]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 7,188,806 [application/octet-stream]

100%[====================================>] 7,188,806 539.94K/s ETA 00:00
^
this
should
be KB,
not K

05:42:17 (455.99 KB/s) - `mediawiki-1.12.0.tar.gz' saved [7188806/7188806]
^
Like here

I see can reproduce this:

$ LC_ALL=C wget ix.de
--2008-03-28 18:00:44-- http://ix.de/
Resolving ix.de... 193.99.144.80
Connecting to ix.de|193.99.144.80|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://www.heise.de/ix/ [following]
--2008-03-28 18:00:44-- http://www.heise.de/ix/
Resolving http://www.heise.de... 193.99.144.85
Connecting to http://www.heise.de|193.99.144.85|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: `index.html'

[ <=> ] 32,564 --.-K/s in 0.1s

2008-03-28 18:00:45 (220 KB/s) - `index.html' saved [32564]

Noël Köthe <nok>

 

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