1*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino# $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/units/README,v 1.4 1999/08/28 01:07:09 peter Exp $ 2*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino# $DragonFly: src/usr.bin/units/README,v 1.2 2003/06/17 04:29:33 dillon Exp $ 3*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino 4*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoThis is a program which I wrote as a clone of the UNIX 'units' 5*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinocommand. I threw it together in a couple days, but it seems to work, 6*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinowith some restrictions. I have tested it under DOS with Borland C and 7*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoUltrix 4.2, and SunOS 4.1. 8*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino 9*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoThis program differs from the unix units program in the following 10*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinoways: 11*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino it can gracefully handle exponents larger than 9 in output 12*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino it uses 'e' to denote exponentiation in numbers 13*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino prefixes are listed in the units file 14*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino it tries both -s and -es plurals 15*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino it allows use of * for multiply and ^ for exponentiation in the input 16*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino the output format is somewhat different 17*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino 18*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoAdrian Mariano (adrian@cam.cornell.edu or mariano@geom.umn.edu) 19*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino 20