From: otto@drijf.net (Otto Moerbeek)
Subject: [TUHS] Etymology of bc(1)
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 13:36:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140912113612.GN24919@discoboy.drijf.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140912111512.GA14385@mercury.ccil.org>
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 07:15:12AM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Dave Horsfall scripsit:
>
> > Perhaps so, but I was a bit surprised that FreeBSD (and I include the Mac
> > in that) totally rewrote it from a Posix draft, and dropped the pipe.
>
> So did GNU.
FreeBSD head has OpenBSD's dc(1) and bc(1) , which does pipe to dc(1).
(I wrote both).
-Otto
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-12 1:54 Noel Chiappa
2014-09-12 2:35 ` Mark Longridge
2014-09-12 6:00 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-09-12 11:15 ` John Cowan
2014-09-12 11:36 ` Otto Moerbeek [this message]
2014-09-12 17:12 ` scj
2014-09-12 17:18 ` Warner Losh
2014-09-12 19:02 ` Clem Cole
2014-09-12 19:36 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-09-12 20:03 ` Warner Losh
2014-09-12 19:32 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-09-12 18:28 ` Tim Bradshaw
2014-09-13 2:52 ` Dave Horsfall
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2014-09-12 3:15 Noel Chiappa
2014-09-12 3:33 ` Larry McVoy
2014-09-12 6:10 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-09-11 21:24 Christian Neukirchen
2014-09-11 21:41 ` Warner Losh
2014-09-11 22:04 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-09-11 22:17 ` John Cowan
2014-09-11 23:34 ` scj
2014-09-12 1:03 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-09-12 13:37 ` random832
2014-09-12 14:18 ` Steve Nickolas
2014-09-12 20:02 ` Dave Horsfall
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