Re: Unit Conversion.
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 09:44:06PM +0100, green wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote at 2009-07-20 11:12 -0600: josé Santos wrote: Hi. I'm looking for an application to do unit conversion in Lenny, google isn't helping much. Any suggestions? Thank you. For one off calculations I find qalculate quite useful. Apart from converting units, it is a fully fledged GUI calculator that is useful for many scientific calculations and has stored values for many physical and other units and constants. It can also convert things like US$ to Euro or more exotic currencies, where the exchange rates are updated via the internet. I like qalculate because it - can be used it on the command line - will solve equations like '2x=4' or whatever qalculate is a very nice find, its far more than I hoped for, although units serves me well to. Thank you very much fellow Debian users. -- __ José Santos | Debian Lenny/Sid mixed system jsan...@ubi.pt |2.6.30.1-686 SMP PREEMPT signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Unit Conversion.
Ron Johnson wrote:
Put this in your .bashrc :
calc() { perl -e print ''.($*).\\\n\; }
$ calc 4 \* 7
28
What a cool hack! Thanks for sharing.
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Re: Unit Conversion.
On 2009-07-21 20:25, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
Put this in your .bashrc :
calc() { perl -e print ''.($*).\\\n\; }
$ calc 4 \* 7
28
What a cool hack! Thanks for sharing.
N.B. I'm passing along what others passed to me.
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Unit Conversion.
Hi. I'm looking for an application to do unit conversion in Lenny, google isn't helping much. Any suggestions? Thank you. -- ___ José Santos | Debian Lenny/Sid mixed system jsan...@aubi.pt|2.6.30.1-686 SMP PREEMPT signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Unit Conversion.
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:00:40PM +0100, josé Santos wrote: I'm looking for an application to do unit conversion in Lenny, google isn't helping much. Any suggestions? units -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Unit Conversion.
josé Santos writes: I'm looking for an application to do unit conversion in Lenny, google isn't helping much. Any suggestions? Install the units package. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Unit Conversion.
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 01:19:15PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:00:40PM +0100, josé Santos wrote: I'm looking for an application to do unit conversion in Lenny, google isn't helping much. Any suggestions? units Thank you, that did the trick very well. -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `-GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org -- __ José Santos | Debian Lenny/Sid mixed system jsan...@ubi.pt |2.6.30.1-686 SMP PREEMPT signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Unit Conversion.
josé Santos wrote: Hi. I'm looking for an application to do unit conversion in Lenny, google isn't helping much. Any suggestions? Thank you. For one off calculations I find qalculate quite useful. Apart from converting units, it is a fully fledged GUI calculator that is useful for many scientific calculations and has stored values for many physical and other units and constants. It can also convert things like US$ to Euro or more exotic currencies, where the exchange rates are updated via the internet. With respect to functionality it appears that both programs are rather similar. Cheers, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Unit Conversion.
Johannes Wiedersich wrote at 2009-07-20 11:12 -0600: josé Santos wrote: Hi. I'm looking for an application to do unit conversion in Lenny, google isn't helping much. Any suggestions? Thank you. For one off calculations I find qalculate quite useful. Apart from converting units, it is a fully fledged GUI calculator that is useful for many scientific calculations and has stored values for many physical and other units and constants. It can also convert things like US$ to Euro or more exotic currencies, where the exchange rates are updated via the internet. I like qalculate because it - can be used it on the command line - will solve equations like '2x=4' or whatever signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Unit Conversion.
On 2009-07-20 15:44, green wrote:
Johannes Wiedersich wrote at 2009-07-20 11:12 -0600:
josé Santos wrote:
Hi. I'm looking for an application to do unit conversion in Lenny,
google isn't helping much. Any suggestions? Thank you.
For one off calculations I find qalculate quite useful. Apart from
converting units, it is a fully fledged GUI calculator that is useful
for many scientific calculations and has stored values for many physical
and other units and constants. It can also convert things like US$ to
Euro or more exotic currencies, where the exchange rates are updated via
the internet.
I like qalculate because it
- can be used it on the command line
Put this in your .bashrc :
calc() { perl -e print ''.($*).\\\n\; }
$ calc 4 \* 7
28
- will solve equations like '2x=4' or whatever
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Re: Unit Conversion.
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2009-07-20 15:44, green wrote:
Johannes Wiedersich wrote at 2009-07-20 11:12 -0600:
josé Santos wrote:
I like qalculate because it
- can be used it on the command line
Put this in your .bashrc :
calc() { perl -e print ''.($*).\\\n\; }
$ calc 4 \* 7
28
This is a boring example without units --let alone their conversion...
:-(
Johannes
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Re: Unit Conversion.
Hi, On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 1:00 PM, josé Santosjsan...@ubi.pt wrote: Hi. I'm looking for an application to do unit conversion in Lenny, google isn't helping much. Any suggestions? backpo udunits [1] not in lenny, but is in new queue, perhaps it could be easyly backported [1] http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/udunits_2.1.7-1.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
