On Tuesday 01 Jan 2002 15:20, David A. Bandel wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 09:41:19 -0500
>
> "Burns MacDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed into the bitstream:
> > David spake:
[...]
> > a 'cable' is 200 yards
> > a shackle is about 90 feet
> > a fathom is 6 feet
>
> And you got this information where?
>
> [david@tole david]$ units
> 2112 units, 59 prefixes
>
[...]
> You have: 1 shackle
> Unknown unit 'shackle'.
[19:42 peter@penguin:peter]$ units
1948 units, 71 prefixes, 28 functions
You have: shackle
You want: feet
* 90.00018
/ 0.011111089
[19:48 peter@penguin:peter]$ rpm -qa|grep units
units-1.74-2mdk
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