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Dima Dorfman 6b0b1ebfc5 Correct a typo. PR: 22885 Submitted by: Rene de Vries <rene@tunix.nl>		2001-06-01 02:53:32 +00:00
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units.1	Reverse order of from and to in order to match reality.	2001-04-25 07:43:45 +00:00
units.c	Give units a bit of a cleanup:	2001-02-28 15:57:38 +00:00
units.lib	Correct a typo.	2001-06-01 02:53:32 +00:00

README

# $FreeBSD$

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)