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Joel Dahl c2965cd185 mdoc: terminate quoted strings. Reviewed by: brueffer		2012-03-26 15:18:14 +00:00
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units.1	mdoc: terminate quoted strings.	2012-03-26 15:18:14 +00:00
units.c	Add missing static keywords to units(1)	2011-11-06 08:18:17 +00:00
units.lib	Add limited support for units that are related by affine rather	2008-08-16 16:27:41 +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)