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- Hello, sorry, but no formal man page at this time...
- Enclosed, however, is a units conversion program I wrote.
- It allows you to convert lots of units to lots of other units...
- It is fairly self explainatory. It inquires which type of unit
- conversion you are interested in, such as length etc... and then
- asks for the specific unit such as "inches". Then, it asks
- how many inches.... the result is a table converting n number of
- inches to every other unit of length the program is familiar with.
-
- It also has a chart option, which allows you to create charts
- of say... mph vs m/sec for 23 mph through 45 mph in increments of
- 2 mph etc...
-
- It includes lots of units... even things like footcandles, stones
- etc... It also does error-checking (and correction if possible) of
- user inputs.
-
- It is easily expandable to include more unit types, by editing
- the include file unit_table.h.
-
- I hope lots of people will use this, and send me all sorts of
- enhancement requests/bug reports etc... so I will be motivated
- to improve it, and add a real man page a re-post it with all
- the fixes/enhancements from the net. I like it, and I hope
- you do to. The biggest bug is that it uses an ansi escape sequence
- to clear the screen before each menu... this is obviously a big
- kludge since I obviously should have used curses, but my pc doesn't
- have curses!
-
- One other bug is that the main menu is hardwired into u.c, it should
- (for ease of enhancement) be loaded in from the data in unit_table.h...
-
- I have tested the program under 4.3BSD, Sun 3.0, MS-DOS, VMS 4.5
- and Plexus System III.... it should be portable to just about
- anything...
-
- Enjoy,
-
- Greg
-
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- Gregory R. Simpson
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