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For increased compatibility with GNU units: support a -v option which produces more verbose output when spitting out the answer. GNU -v does additional work in the version, information, and check output which we do not (yet?) replicate.
# $FreeBSD$ 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)