Re: Unit Conversion.

2009-07-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-21 20:25, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Put this in your .bashrc : calc() { perl -e "print ''.($*).\"\\n\""; } $ calc 4 \* 7 28 What a cool hack! Thanks for sharing. N.B. I'm passing along what others passed to me. -- Scooty Puff, Sr The Doom-Bringer -- T

Re: Unit Conversion.

2009-07-21 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Ron Johnson wrote: > Put this in your .bashrc : > > calc() { perl -e "print ''.($*).\"\\n\""; } > > $ calc 4 \* 7 > 28 > What a cool hack! Thanks for sharing. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: Unit Conversion.

2009-07-21 Thread josé Santos
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 09:44:06PM +0100, green wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich wrote at 2009-07-20 11:12 -0600: > > josé Santos wrote: > > > Hi. I'm looking for an application to do unit conversion in Lenny, > > > google isn't helping much. Any suggest

Re: Unit Conversion.

2009-07-20 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi, On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 1:00 PM, josé Santos wrote: > Hi. > I'm looking for an application to do unit conversion in Lenny, google isn't > helping much. > Any suggestions? backpo udunits [1] not in lenny, but is in new queue, perhaps it could be easyly back

Re: Unit Conversion.

2009-07-20 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-07-20 15:44, green wrote: >> Johannes Wiedersich wrote at 2009-07-20 11:12 -0600: >>> josé Santos wrote: >> I like qalculate because it >> - can be used it on the command line > > Put this in your .bashrc : > > calc() { perl -e "print ''.($*).\"\\n\""; } > > $ calc

Re: Unit Conversion.

2009-07-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-20 15:44, green wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote at 2009-07-20 11:12 -0600: josé Santos wrote: Hi. I'm looking for an application to do unit conversion in Lenny, google isn't helping much. Any suggestions? Thank you. For one off calculations I find qalculate quite use

Re: Unit Conversion.

2009-07-20 Thread green
Johannes Wiedersich wrote at 2009-07-20 11:12 -0600: > josé Santos wrote: > > Hi. I'm looking for an application to do unit conversion in Lenny, > > google isn't helping much. Any suggestions? Thank you. > > For one off calculations I find qalculate quite useful. Ap

Re: Unit Conversion.

2009-07-20 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
josé Santos wrote: > Hi. I'm looking for an application to do unit conversion in Lenny, > google isn't helping much. Any suggestions? Thank you. For one off calculations I find qalculate quite useful. Apart from converting units, it is a fully fledged GUI calculator that is

Re: Unit Conversion.

2009-07-20 Thread josé Santos
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 01:19:15PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:00:40PM +0100, josé Santos wrote: > > I'm looking for an application to do unit conversion in Lenny, google isn't > > helping much. > > Any suggestions? > > units Th

Re: Unit Conversion.

2009-07-20 Thread John Hasler
josé Santos writes: > I'm looking for an application to do unit conversion in Lenny, google > isn't helping much. Any suggestions? Install the "units" package. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: Unit Conversion.

2009-07-20 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:00:40PM +0100, josé Santos wrote: > I'm looking for an application to do unit conversion in Lenny, google isn't > helping much. > Any suggestions? units -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.deb

Unit Conversion.

2009-07-20 Thread josé Santos
Hi. I'm looking for an application to do unit conversion in Lenny, google isn't helping much. Any suggestions? Thank you. -- ___ José Santos | Debian Lenny/Sid mixed system jsan...@aubi.pt|2.6.30.1-686 SMP PREEMPT sig