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Alexander Langer fd70ee8464 Added revised manpage submitted by the author of units. Reviewed by: alex Submitted by: Adrian Mariano <adrian@cam.cornell.edu>		1996-06-10 00:43:42 +00:00
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Makefile	Units conversion utility courtesy of NetBSD.	1996-06-08 03:43:43 +00:00
pathnames.h	Units conversion utility courtesy of NetBSD.	1996-06-08 03:43:43 +00:00
README	Units conversion utility courtesy of NetBSD.	1996-06-08 03:43:43 +00:00
units.1	Added revised manpage submitted by the author of units.	1996-06-10 00:43:42 +00:00
units.c	Fix exit code when used in non-interactive mode.	1996-06-08 04:30:06 +00:00
units.lib	Units conversion utility courtesy of NetBSD.	1996-06-08 03:43:43 +00:00

README

#	$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)