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05/29/2001 0.5 This Handbook describes KUnit Version 0.5 KDE KUnit units &kunit; is a simple program to convert various units. &kunit; currently converts the following categories: acceleration angle angular acceleration angular velocity area bits and bytes capacitance charge colors current energy force illuminance inductance length luminance magnetic flux mass (or weight) power pressure Shoe Sizes SI prefixes specific heat temperature thermal conductivity time torque velocity viscosity (dynamic) viscosity (kinematic) voltage volume &kunit; 0.5 can be obtained from: http://www.netmeister.org/apps/kunit-0.5.tar.gz Older versions can be downloaded from here In order to successfully compile and use &kunit;, you need the following programs and libraries which are available on most platforms as distribution packages and thereby can be installed easily. Required: g++ 2.7.2/g++ 2.8.1/egcs 1.1 (or compatible), available at http://www.gnu.org GNU make (or compatible), available at http://www.gnu.org autoconf 2.12, available at http://www.gnu.org automake 1.2, available at http://www.gnu.org Qt 2.2.x or higher, available at http://www.troll.no In order to compile and install &kunit; on your system, type the following in the base directory of the &kunit; distribution: % make % su % make install Should you run into problems please report them to the the author at Jan Schaumann Straight forward: Run kunit. Choose the category for your units. Choose the unit to convert from and the unit to convert to. Enter the number to convert into the appropriate text-field. Happily read the result from the appropriate text-field. KUnit Copyright 2000, 2001 Jan Schaumann, jschauma@netmeister.org 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 of the License, 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 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. Please take the time to visit these websites: http://www.aclu.org http://www.amnesty.org http://www.worldwildlife.org http://www.ncadp.org Take the time to think about it.