OT: Acres of bacteria

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Does anyone know if 'units' will compile and work on OS X?

--Bondster!!

On Apr 9, 2004, at 9:44 AM, Ken Schweigert wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 03:34:47PM -0700, Longman, Bill wrote:
>>> has a 42 bit address bus. We leave the calculation to Clint,
>>> who'll probably
>>> compare the sheer size of this number to acres of bacteria....
>>
>> Enter units, my *favorite* utility:
>>
>> Assuming 1 bacteria = ~1 micron^2 then,
>>
>> /home/longman
>> 2k01> units
>> 1989 units, 71 prefixes, 32 nonlinear units
>
> Bill,
>
> Thanks for pointing out 'units'.  I've been looking for a utility
> like it since I started with linux.  I'm suprised something this
> useful isn't part of the core install.
>
> To anyone who wants to give it a try, it can be downloaded from:
> 	ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/units/
>
> It compiled very easily with:
> 	./configure
> 	make
> 	make install
>
> I would also like to point out that the man page for 'units' is
> very well written, too.
>
> -- 
> Ken Schweigert, Network Administrator
> Byte Productions, LLC
> http://www.byte-productions.com
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