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On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 03:47:27PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>That's certainly true.
>How many users would prefer the current default over -h and why?

I think -h is fairly useless, because it obscures magnitude differences 
between lines. I prefer -m in almost all cases. That said, I haven't 
changed the default to make everyone get my preference...

Mike Stone



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