OT: Acres of bacteria

[Gavin Hemphill]

You really should install FINK on OSX.  I've got almost all the same 
things that are on YDL 3.0 installed under OSX at the moment.  Units 
1.74-10 is available.
	G++

bondtrails wrote:

> 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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