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From:
Jonathan Gray <jsg@jsg.id.au>
Subject:
Re: units(1): history
To:
Evan Silberman <evan@jklol.net>
Cc:
tech@openbsd.org
Date:
Tue, 10 Dec 2024 16:30:44 +1100

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On Mon, Dec 09, 2024 at 05:01:47PM -0800, Evan Silberman wrote:
> First and final bump. I really do like HISTORY sections and I hope we
> can have more of them rather than fewer.

Thanks, committed.  Some more background to units:

Doug McIlroy recounts how units came to be in
https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2024-September/030886.html

Adrian Mariano sent a version to comp.sources.misc on Jul 23, 1993
before cgd added it to NetBSD (Oct 1993):
v38i061: units - clone of the unix program for unit conversion, Part01/01
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sources.misc/c/VnmBvTJvRtg/m/lvsOpTAB3WkJ