diff docs/noffle.conf.5 @ 134:7dfbb1c20a81 noffle

[svn] k and m suffices on filter numbers
author bears
date Wed, 16 Aug 2000 00:08:13 +0100
parents 8897b7e3b108
children 1c7303c71f66
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--- a/docs/noffle.conf.5	Mon Aug 14 20:51:51 2000 +0100
+++ b/docs/noffle.conf.5	Wed Aug 16 00:08:13 2000 +0100
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .TH noffle.conf 5
-.\" $Id: noffle.conf.5 189 2000-08-09 21:19:17Z bears $
+.\" $Id: noffle.conf.5 199 2000-08-15 23:08:13Z bears $
 
 .SH NAME
 noffle.conf \- Configuration file for NOFFLE news server
@@ -344,11 +344,16 @@
 than, equal to, or greater than the given number.
 
 .PP
+Numbers may have a suffix of 'k' or 'm'. As you might expect, 'k'
+indicates the number is to be multiplied by 1024 and 'm' indicates
+it is to be multiplied by 1024*1024. Thus 10k is 10240 and 1m is 1048576.
+
+.PP
 For example, the following filters download all articles in groups
 in the alt.binaries tree in full if they are < 10k in size, otherwise
 downloads overviews.
 .PP
-.I filter group=alt.binaries.* bytes < 10240 action=full
+.I filter group=alt.binaries.* bytes < 10k action=full
 .br
 .I filter group=alt.binaries.* action=over
 .PP