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groo 83d3e13964 A hogshead is defined in the U.S. to be 63 gallons, and otherwise refers to a volume unit of varying capacity (betwen 63 and 140(!)) gallons. Since the U.S. is the only place it is defined, and I can find little evidence to support the "barrel" definition, make it 63 gallons. Like everything, this was prompted by the Simpsons. "The metric system is a tool of the devil! My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!" -- Abe Simpson		2005-02-01 01:08:10 +00:00
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units.c	Add (unsigned char) cast to ctype functions	2004-11-04 07:38:43 +00:00
units.lib	A hogshead is defined in the U.S. to be 63 gallons, and otherwise refers	2005-02-01 01:08:10 +00:00

README

#	$NetBSD: README,v 1.2 1996/04/06 06:00:59 thorpej Exp $

This is a program which I wrote as a clone of the UNIX 'units'
command.  I threw it together in a couple days, but it seems to work,
with some restrictions.  I have tested it under DOS with Borland C and
Ultrix 4.2, and SunOS 4.1.  

This program differs from the unix units program in the following
ways:
   it can gracefully handle exponents larger than 9 in output
   it uses 'e' to denote exponentiation in numbers
   prefixes are listed in the units file
   it tries both -s and -es plurals
   it allows use of * for multiply and ^ for exponentiation in the input
   the output format is somewhat different

Adrian Mariano (adrian@cam.cornell.edu or mariano@geom.umn.edu)