From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: interesting case of not getting the point: dc on a mac
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2023 19:11:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230123031111.GX12196@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2301231345270.35099@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 02:07:14PM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jan 2023, Steve Nickolas wrote:
>
> > I think there was one particular dc clone...guy whose name started with
> > a G? and his version did that.
>
> On my ancient MacBook Pro (13-inch, mid 2010, High Sierra 10.13.6):
>
> mackie:~ dave$ dc
> (^D)
> mackie:~ dave$ dc -V
> dc (GNU bc 1.06) 1.3
>
> On my ancient FreeBSD server:
>
> aneurin% dc
> (^D)
> aneurin% dc -V
> dc (BSD bc) 1.3-FreeBSD
>
> Nil prompt in both cases.
>
> > Most Linux versions use GNU's which Does The Right Thing???????.
I know this is about dc (which I think is under bc or is it the other way
around?) but to pick on GNU:
slovax ~ 'bc'
bc 1.06.95
Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type `warranty'.
slovax ~ alias bc
alias bc='bc -ql'
because, well, the same reason I run vi in terse mode.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-23 3:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-22 23:39 [TUHS] " ron minnich
2023-01-22 23:41 ` [TUHS] " ron minnich
2023-01-22 23:50 ` Warner Losh
2023-01-22 23:49 ` Steve Nickolas
2023-01-22 23:57 ` Joseph Holsten
2023-01-23 0:07 ` Steve Nickolas
2023-01-23 3:07 ` Dave Horsfall
2023-01-23 3:11 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2023-01-23 13:43 ` Dan Cross
2023-01-23 13:59 ` ron minnich
2023-01-23 3:32 ` Steve Nickolas
2023-01-23 3:38 ` George Michaelson
2023-01-23 3:39 ` George Michaelson
2023-01-23 3:40 ` George Michaelson
2023-01-23 14:15 ` Dan Cross
2023-01-23 21:08 ` Joseph Holsten
2023-01-24 0:59 ` Adam Thornton
2023-01-23 0:15 ` Bakul Shah
2023-01-23 0:20 ` ron minnich
2023-01-23 0:23 ` George Michaelson
2023-01-23 0:26 ` Joseph Holsten
2023-01-23 0:39 ` Bakul Shah
2023-01-23 1:32 ` Rob Pike
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