Units??
Anne Wilson
cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Sat Dec 2 19:38:16 UTC 2006
On Saturday 02 December 2006 19:21, jim tate wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > According to yum:
> >
> > units.i386 1.85-1.2.2 installed
> > Matched from:
> > A utility for converting amounts from one unit to another.
> >
> > I couldn't find it on the menu, so I tried :
> > /usr/bin/units
> > 2438 units, 71 prefixes, 32 nonlinear units
> >
> > You have:
> >
> > Clearly this is not what I intended :-)
> >
> > Question 1 - what units is this talking about?
> > Question 2 - does anyone know how I can access the 'units' converter?
> >
> > Anne
>
> info units on CLI
I panicked when I got an unexpected screen, thinking that I had actually
accessed something else altogether. Naturally, then, I didn't think of info,
since it would tell me about the 'other' - OK - it might have answered
question 1. As it turns out, it wouldn't have helped much, as it simply
returns
* Menu:
* Overview:: What does `units' do?
* Interactive use:: How to use `units'.
* Command line use:: How to use `units' noninteractively.
* Invoking units:: Command line options.
* Unit expressions:: Forming compound units.
* Unit definitions:: What units are defined?
* Defining new units:: How to write your own units definitions.
* Nonlinear units:: How to define nonlinear units.
* Localization:: How to define and use regional unit names.
* Environment vars:: Environment variables used by `units'.
* Readline support:: Unit name completion and editing.
* Index:: General index
and nothing to follow. Mikkel's link gives me the same menu, but with html
links to relevant content.
Anne
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