Units??

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 19:33 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday 02 December 2006 19:21, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 07:12:51PM +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > 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?
> >
> > No, this is it. It just has a dumb user interface. It works like this:
> >
> > You have: 1 meter
> > You want: inches
> >         * 39.370079
> >         / 0.0254
> > You have: 20000 leagues
> > You want: miles
> >         * 60000.12
> >         / 1.6666633e-05
> >
> Arghh!! Never thought of that.  So is the line 
> 2438 units, 71 prefixes, 32 nonlinear units
> actually telling me something about itself?
Section form man usits:
INTERACTING WITH ‘UNITS’
       To invoke units for interactive use, type ‘units’ at your shell
prompt.
       The program will print something like this:

           2131 units, 53 prefixes, 24 nonlinear units

-- 
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>