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eadler 242400036c Bring a little more compability with GNU units 2.12 - notionally support a 'history file' flag. This doesn't do much now, but is there to prevent scripts written against GNU units from breaking - correctly gracefully quit rather than exit (this will make it easier to support a history file in the future) - remove the "t" flag from fopen which was there to support windows. We have not supported windows since at the latest, the introduction of capsicum.		2016-04-21 05:24:47 +00:00
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tests	MFH	2016-03-10 21:16:01 +00:00
definitions.units	Rename units.lib -> definitions.units	2016-04-19 05:17:59 +00:00
Makefile	Fix build breakage introduced by r298253.	2016-04-19 07:28:39 +00:00
Makefile.depend	Add META_MODE support.	2015-06-13 19:20:56 +00:00
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units.1	Bring a little more compability with GNU units 2.12	2016-04-21 05:24:47 +00:00
units.c	Bring a little more compability with GNU units 2.12	2016-04-21 05:24:47 +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)