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- From: stringha@mail.boi.hp.com (Gary Stringham)
- Subject: Re: xcalc in slide rule mode
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:39:20 GMT
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- >Slide rule mode, for people who have habits that die hard :-). Note,
- >an old version of the X Window System xcalc did in fact have an analog
- >mode that popped up a slide rule, pretty accurate too I hear.
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- Cool! How do you invoke it? There is no mention of it in the man page
- but the string, "Slide Rule", does exist in the executable.
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- Gary "Slide rule on windows; old technology meets new." Stringham
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