Pádraig Brady wrote:
> There were some issues noted with that,
> but IMHO they were lesser than the current issue.

No matter which format we pick, fans of the other format will complain. Instead, 
let's output the information in both formats. I did that with the attached patch.

> We will have to be careful to not corrupt output
> when switching with status=progress (due to possibly shorter status line).

I didn't know about this problem. Could you explain it?

Ah. Is this due to glitches when the size grows from (say) "1023 KiB" to "1.0 
MiB", or is it something else?