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 -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>