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Wednesday, October 31, 2007

units - unit conversion program

was spent time to convert one scales to their equivalents in other scales. (ex:lbs to kgs).similary for other SI units too.finally found a units conversion program.


step1>anilkumar@gnu# sudo apt-gets install units

step2> anilkumar@gnu:~$ units (invoke program)

2438 units, 71 prefixes, 32 nonlinear units

You have: lbs
You want: kgs
* 0.45359237
/ 2.2046226
You have:


step 3> look at FILES
/usr/share/misc/units.dat - the standard units data file

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