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Julio Merino 619e4f78fe Only initialize libedit when necessary The code path to support units conversions from the command line need not initialize neither libedit nor the history. Therefore, only do that when in interactive mode. This hides the issue reported in PR bin/201167 whereby running commands of the form 'echo "$(units ft in)"' would corrupt the terminal. The real issue causing the corruption most likely still remains somewhere. PR: bin/201167 Differential Revision: D2935 Reviewed by: eadler		2015-06-28 16:43:07 +00:00
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tests	Fix structure of new tests (r268794) for usr.bin/units.	2014-07-25 01:29:22 +00:00
Makefile	Convert to usr.bin/ to LIBADD	2014-11-25 14:29:10 +00:00
Makefile.depend	Add META_MODE support.	2015-06-13 19:20:56 +00:00
pathnames.h
README
units.1	units(1): Add support for output-format	2014-07-17 06:54:12 +00:00
units.c	Only initialize libedit when necessary	2015-06-28 16:43:07 +00:00
units.lib	units(1): Convert units.lib to use '#' instead of '/'.	2014-07-05 03:27:31 +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)