1*2106ea47SThomas Cort# $NetBSD: README,v 1.2 1996/04/06 06:00:59 thorpej Exp $ 2*2106ea47SThomas Cort 3*2106ea47SThomas CortThis is a program which I wrote as a clone of the UNIX 'units' 4*2106ea47SThomas Cortcommand. I threw it together in a couple days, but it seems to work, 5*2106ea47SThomas Cortwith some restrictions. I have tested it under DOS with Borland C and 6*2106ea47SThomas CortUltrix 4.2, and SunOS 4.1. 7*2106ea47SThomas Cort 8*2106ea47SThomas CortThis program differs from the unix units program in the following 9*2106ea47SThomas Cortways: 10*2106ea47SThomas Cort it can gracefully handle exponents larger than 9 in output 11*2106ea47SThomas Cort it uses 'e' to denote exponentiation in numbers 12*2106ea47SThomas Cort prefixes are listed in the units file 13*2106ea47SThomas Cort it tries both -s and -es plurals 14*2106ea47SThomas Cort it allows use of * for multiply and ^ for exponentiation in the input 15*2106ea47SThomas Cort the output format is somewhat different 16*2106ea47SThomas Cort 17*2106ea47SThomas CortAdrian Mariano (adrian@cam.cornell.edu or mariano@geom.umn.edu) 18*2106ea47SThomas Cort 19