Units??

Anne Wilson cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Sat Dec 2 21:47:45 UTC 2006


On Saturday 02 December 2006 21:12, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 02Dec2006 19:38, anne wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> | 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 [... a useless menu...]
>
> Info's usually annoying. Always start with "man units".
>
> If you'd done that, you have seen in the examples exactly the prompt
> you got when you ran "units".
>
> The "2131 units, 53 prefixes, 24 nonlinear units" summarises how many
> types of conversions it knows.
>
I'd have done that, if I hadn't thought I was on the wrong program :-)

Thanks to all who answered.

Anne
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