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author | alex <alex@FreeBSD.org> | 1996-06-08 03:43:43 +0000 |
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committer | alex <alex@FreeBSD.org> | 1996-06-08 03:43:43 +0000 |
commit | 8286eb57f9ad1e6b81f55915ad90b7cb489a2715 (patch) | |
tree | 8db24b9c5b758bbcae4882585338c17f447fc1aa /usr.bin/units/README | |
parent | 2e5912fe126c08734bf3d160c1983e32b5faf293 (diff) | |
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Units conversion utility courtesy of NetBSD.
Submitted by: Jeremy Prior
Obtained from: NetBSD
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diff --git a/usr.bin/units/README b/usr.bin/units/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ffb88a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/usr.bin/units/README @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +# $Id: README,v 1.2 1996/04/06 06:00:59 thorpej Exp $ + +This is a program which I wrote as a clone of the UNIX 'units' +command. I threw it together in a couple days, but it seems to work, +with some restrictions. I have tested it under DOS with Borland C and +Ultrix 4.2, and SunOS 4.1. + +This program differs from the unix units program in the following +ways: + it can gracefully handle exponents larger than 9 in output + it uses 'e' to denote exponentiation in numbers + prefixes are listed in the units file + it tries both -s and -es plurals + it allows use of * for multiply and ^ for exponentiation in the input + the output format is somewhat different + +Adrian Mariano (adrian@cam.cornell.edu or mariano@geom.umn.edu) + |