On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Dawit Alemayehu wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, David Faure wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: pbadenh@abacus.kommetjie.za 
> > > [mailto:pbadenh@abacus.kommetjie.za]On
> > > Behalf Of Peet Badenhorst
> > > Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 4:16 AM
> > > To: faure@kde.org
> > > Subject: KFM download progress indicator
> > > 
> > > 
> > > When downloading web page, progress indicator will read say 4.5kb/s. I
> > > believe this should be 4.5kB/s to designate Bytes as apposed to bits.
> > > 
> > > Peet
> > 
> > I don't know.
> > Anybody ?
> 
> Well he is right.  It should have been kB/s.  Otherwise we are downloading at a
> snails pace :)  I have not checked the code in konqueror ( actually kio now I
> guess ) yet but it should be fixed in there.  I believe it is one of those small
> oversites.  The calculaion was done correctly, but someone forgot that there is
> a distinction b/n kB & kb ...

I just checked the code in kio (which is used by Konqueror for the
progress indication), and it seems correct :-)

Bye,
 Simon