Module Name: src
Committed By: apb
Date: Fri Dec 28 13:25:26 UTC 2012
Modified Files:
src/usr.bin/units: units.1
Log Message:
Improve the description of the [count] from-unit to-unit arguments.
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.17 -r1.18 src/usr.bin/units/units.1
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Index: src/usr.bin/units/units.1
diff -u src/usr.bin/units/units.1:1.17 src/usr.bin/units/units.1:1.18
--- src/usr.bin/units/units.1:1.17 Sun Apr 3 19:44:15 2011
+++ src/usr.bin/units/units.1 Fri Dec 28 13:25:25 2012
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: units.1,v 1.17 2011/04/03 19:44:15 dholland Exp $
-.Dd April 3, 2011
+.\" $NetBSD: units.1,v 1.18 2012/12/28 13:25:25 apb Exp $
+.Dd December 28, 2012
.Dt UNITS 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ their equivalents in other scales.
can only handle multiplicative scale changes.
It cannot convert Centigrade to Fahrenheit, for example.
.Pp
-The following options are supported:
-.Bl -tag -width "from-unit to-unit" -offset indent
+The following options and arguments are supported:
+.Bl -tag -width "-fXfilenameX" -offset indent
.It Fl f Ar filename
Specifies the name of the units data file to load.
.It Fl q
@@ -30,17 +30,20 @@ Suppresses prompting of the user for uni
about the number of units loaded.
.It Fl v
Prints the version number.
-.It Ar from-unit Ar to-unit
+.It Oo Ar count Oc Ar from-unit Ar to-unit
Allows a single unit conversion to be done directly from the command
line.
No prompting will occur.
.Nm
will print out only the result of this single conversion.
-The
+Specifying
.Ar count
-argument can be prepended to the
+and
.Ar from-unit
-or it can be separate.
+as two separate arguments is equivalent to embedding both parts
+inside a single
+.Ar from-unit
+argument, with the parts separated by a space.
.El
.Pp
.Nm
