This is Debian/GNU Linux's prepackaged version of the FSF's GNU units
utility.  GNU 'units' program converts quantities expressed in various
scales to their equivalents in other scales.

This package was put together by me, James Troup <james@nocrew.org>,
from the GNU sources, which I obtained from
sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk:/pub/gnu/units-1.54.tar.gz.  The changes were
minimal:

o adding support for the Debian package maintenance scheme, by adding
  various debian/* files.
o units.c: #include <readline/history.h> iff READLINE is defined to
  get add_history() prototype.
o units.c: Added prototypes for handlesum(), completereduce() and
  compareunits().
o units.c (readunits,lookupunit,addunit,completeunits): parentheses
  around assignment used as a truth value.
o units.c (showanswer): initialize sep, right and left to quiet -Wall.

Program Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Modifications for Debian Copyright (C) 1997, 1998 James Troup.
Additional modifications for Debian copyright 1999 John Hasler.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License with
your Debian GNU/Linux system, in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL, or with the
Debian GNU/Linux units source package as the file COPYING.  If not,
write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite
330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

Manual (units.info) Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 Free Software Foundation,
Inc.

Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
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Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the
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Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this
manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified
versions.