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| Name: units | Distribution: openSUSE 12.1 |
| Version: 1.88 | Vendor: openSUSE |
| Release: 5.1.3 | Build date: Sat Oct 29 08:33:03 2011 |
| Group: Productivity/Scientific/Physics | Build host: build13 |
| Size: 295780 | Source RPM: units-1.88-5.1.3.src.rpm |
| Packager: http://bugs.opensuse.org | |
| Url: http://www.gnu.org/software/units/ | |
| Summary: Units Conversion Utility | |
The 'units' program converts quantities expressed in various scales to
their equivalents in other scales.
Units can also convert temperature values (Fahrenheit to Celsius, for
example) but this needs a slightly different input syntax. See the man
page for details.
Authors:
--------
Adrian Mariano <adrian@cam.cornell.edu>
LGPLv2.1+
* Thu Aug 26 2010 pgajdos@suse.cz
- Updated to version 1.88
* Updated units.dat
* Fixed bug involving readline version 4.2
* Wed Feb 13 2008 schwab@suse.de
- Update to units 1.85.
* Units reads ~/.units.dat if it exists before reading the standard
units database.
* Added support for ** as an exponent operator.
* Type 'search text' to list units that contain 'text' in their name.
* Precedence of '*' changed to match precedence of '/'.
(Multiplication by juxtaposition retains a higher precedence than
'/'.) The --oldstar option selects the old precedence and --newstar
forces the new precedence.
* Thu Mar 29 2007 schwab@suse.de
- Add bison to BuildRequires.
* Mon Dec 04 2006 schwab@suse.de
- Update to units 1.85.
* Added --one-line (-1) option which causes the program to print only
one line of output.
* Added --compact option which causes the program to print only the
conversion factors and a newline on output.
* Added build support for DESTDIR.
* Made minor changes that allow the program to be compiled into a
library and linked with other programs.
* Fixed bugs (including bus error on Intel Mac) and added
* Wed Jan 25 2006 mls@suse.de
- converted neededforbuild to BuildRequires
* Sun May 22 2005 schwab@suse.de
- Update to units 1.85.
* Thu Oct 07 2004 schwab@suse.de
- Update to units 1.80.
* Sat Sep 11 2004 schwab@suse.de
- Fix missing declarations.
* Sat Apr 17 2004 schwab@suse.de
- Pacify autobuild.
* Fri Feb 27 2004 schwab@suse.de
- Add %defattr.
/usr/bin/units /usr/share/info/units.info.gz /usr/share/man/man1/units.1.gz /usr/share/units.dat
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