On Saturday 02 December 2006 19:21, jim tate wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > According to yum: > > > > units.i386 1.85-1.2.2 installed > > Matched from: > > A utility for converting amounts from one unit to another. > > > > 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? > > > > Anne > > info units on CLI 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 * Menu: * Overview:: What does `units' do? * Interactive use:: How to use `units'. * Command line use:: How to use `units' noninteractively. * Invoking units:: Command line options. * Unit expressions:: Forming compound units. * Unit definitions:: What units are defined? * Defining new units:: How to write your own units definitions. * Nonlinear units:: How to define nonlinear units. * Localization:: How to define and use regional unit names. * Environment vars:: Environment variables used by `units'. * Readline support:: Unit name completion and editing. * Index:: General index and nothing to follow. Mikkel's link gives me the same menu, but with html links to relevant content. Anne
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