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David Malone 294a60d836 As far as I can tell, you have never been able to use 'ab' as a unit name if 'a' and 'b' are unit names. You can use 'a b' though.		2000-12-24 16:15:28 +00:00
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units.1	As far as I can tell, you have never been able to use 'ab' as a unit	2000-12-24 16:15:28 +00:00
units.c	Don't segv when trying to add a 0-length unit name.	2000-07-31 10:49:08 +00:00
units.lib	Add 'shot', using the definition used by bars and shotglasses.	2000-08-27 22:02:42 +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)