On 29-Nov-2002 David Bergman wrote: > Here's a problem that *sounded* impossible ... I almost regret posting > the story to a wide audience, because it makes a great tale over drinks
<snip snip snip - most of the story> > Feeling slightly giddy, I typed into my shell: > > $ units > 1311 units, 63 prefixes > > You have: 3 millilightseconds > You want: miles > * 558.84719 > / 0.0017893979 > > "500 miles, or a little bit more." > The story was pretty good (although a bit long), but I'm mainly writing to point out the last few lines to anyone who didn't have the patience to read to the end. I, for one didn't know about the ** units ** program. I played with it for a while and it's really great. Of course, for further details try man units - FYI //------------------------- Shlomo Solomon E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://come.to/shlomo.solomon Date: 30-Nov-2002 Time: 18:51:42 Message sent by XFMail on a LINUX Mandrake 8.1 machine //------------------------- ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
