From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 2300 invoked from network); 23 Jan 2023 03:11:50 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 23 Jan 2023 03:11:50 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A44342427; Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:11:16 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mcvoy.com (mcvoy.com [192.169.23.250]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 691084241E for ; Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:11:11 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mcvoy.com (Postfix, from userid 3546) id 2EDD935E134; Sun, 22 Jan 2023 19:11:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2023 19:11:11 -0800 From: Larry McVoy To: Dave Horsfall Message-ID: <20230123031111.GX12196@mcvoy.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Message-ID-Hash: CM7LGX6HLGGKXVUVLZFQHWRC5VHNOE4C X-Message-ID-Hash: CM7LGX6HLGGKXVUVLZFQHWRC5VHNOE4C X-MailFrom: lm@mcvoy.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: interesting case of not getting the point: dc on a mac List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: 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.