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- From: Andrew Haylett <ajh@gec-mrc.co.uk>
- Subject: Re: Anyone done bc?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.131017.7978@athena.mit.edu>
- Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
- Reply-To: ajh@gec-mrc.co.uk
- Organization: The Internet
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 13:10:17 GMT
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- davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) wrote:
- | Last night using linux I realized how much I use bc. Has anyone done a
- | port, or is there even a free version? Seems there was a GNU version,
- | but it may only have been dc.
-
- there is indeed a GNU bc; it ports easily to Linux as I recall. I also ported
- 'pac', the panel calculator, a curses-based screen calculator that uses bc as
- its computing engine (I had to build a special version of bc for it, though,
- since GNU bc is rather more chatty than the standard one and was confusing
- pac). Pac is very nice, although it shows advanced symptoms of creeping
- featurism, but if you want a tool that can convert between inches and light
- years, work out your mortgage repayments and do arbitrary precision math
- without breaking into a sweat, try it. Available from most Usenet archives, I
- guess.
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