From: Andrew Haylett <ajh@gec-mrc.co.uk> Subject: Re: Anyone done bc? Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 13:10:17 GMT
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.