> I know this is a stupid question, but my teacher showed me a -h flag
> that could be passed to ls on our school lab computers running redhat
> linux and was wondering how I might do something similar under netbsd.

It would have been nice to include the description of the -h flag in the =
linux
man page (using http://www.google.com/search?hl=3Den&q=3Dls+man+linux):

       -h, --human-readable
              print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M
              2G)

> I've looked at the manpage, but nothing stands out, and googling around
> didn't turn up anything.

There is no equivalent AFAIK.

Richard.