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  Choosing measuring-units

   It is a well known fact that americans don't use the same measuring-units as the
   rest of the world because they can't cope with a standard. To get the
   measuring-units you understand, either choose the [1]SI-system which means cm, ml
   and Celsius even though it isn't a SI-unit but it is better than farenheit which
   the [2]US-system uses. So please state what units you prefer.
     * [3]SI units (cm, ml, g, Celsius...)
     * [4]US units (inches, tsp, lb, Farenheit...)

   NOTE: It seems like there are some temperatures missing in the US-version of the
   recipes. This is not my fault. They are not there in the original files either.
   However I am working on a way to translate the Celsius-temps to Farenheight but
   that will take a few days/weeks. So until then, if you encounter a page with
   missing temperatures just change /us/ to /si/ in the URL(location). The formula
   is F = C*9/5 + 32. Hopefully nothing will get burnt...

  Information concerning distribution

   Copyright (C) 1987 USENET Community Trust
   Permission to copy without fee all or part of this material is granted provided
   that the copies are not made or distributed for direct commercial advantage, the
   USENET copyright notice and the title of the newsgroup and its date appear, and
   notice is given that copying is by permission of the USENET Community Trust or
   the original contributor.

  Additional info

   The recipes are converted from *roff to HTML with a little lpc4-hack by [5]me, I
   am very unfamiliar with *roff and used "reverse engineering" to find out what the
   control-codes actually did. This means there can be errors in some of the files.
   If you find one please mail [6]me and I'll fix it. The recipes are categorized
   like the original files which seem to originate from DEC somewhere. However, I
   got my copy from [7]ftp.isy.liu.se in /pub/misc (Dont ask for the *roff to HTML
   converter because it IS a hack)

  See also

   The English Server [8]recipes folder

References

   1. http://www.lysator.liu.se/etexts/recept/si/main.html
   2. http://www.lysator.liu.se/etexts/recept/us/main.html
   3. http://www.lysator.liu.se/etexts/recept/si/main.html
   4. http://www.lysator.liu.se/etexts/recept/us/main.html
   5. http://www.lysator.liu.se:7500/users/lars
   6. http://www.lysator.liu.se:7500/users/lars
   7. ftp://ftp.isy.liu.se/pub/misc
   8. http://english-server.hss.cmu.edu/Recipes.html