"Error splicing file: File too large"

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 12:00:25 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>hi,
>On So, 2016-09-18 at 11:40 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 10:26:19 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:  
>> > 
>> > one describes exactly 1000 megabyte, the other describes 1074
>> > megabyte
>> > ... they are different units for decimal [1] vs binary [2]
>> > measurement,
>> > one is just more fine grained than the other, thats all... and i
>> > dont
>> > think there is any rule "what you should use".  
>> 
>> In the past one KB, MB ... always was related to 1024, by the nature
>> of
>> the binary system, which simply is the base of computers. It became
>> an
>> odd fashion after a while, to wrongly use the computer term Byte in
>> combination with decimal. To distinguish nowadays it's important to
>> use KiB, MiB ... .  
>
>did you actually read the wikipage you initially linked yourself ?
>
>there is nothing wrong with using GB ... it is just a different unit of
>measurement and you should know which is which when talking about it,
>thats all ... there is no "better" or "should be used instead" :)

And how should we know what somebody means when using GB for both? Was
the OP talking about 2 ^ 30 or talking about 10 ^ 9 and how do we know
that? If we would distinguish, call one always GB and the other always
GiB, there would be no doubts. IMO 10 ^ 9 anyway is grotesque and
never should be used as a scale related to bits and bytes. 

Regards,
Ralf