tool_getparam: Support size modifiers for --max-filesize #2179
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function so that it can also be used with max-filesize.
Size modifiers are the suffixes such as G (gigabyte), M (megabyte) etc.
For example --max-filesize 1G
Ref: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2017-12/0000.html
Closes #xxxx
As proposed by @gvanem on the curl tool mailing list. I modified it slightly for error, doc and checksrc compliance.