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From: George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: interesting case of not getting the point: dc on a mac
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:38:52 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKr6gn0=Mc5gcqwExzv8NpCpZqcXCni9MhbVVey=EmjBQRSWJw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2301222230010.31399@sd-119843.dedibox.fr>

ggm@GGM-802602 ~ % uname && dc --version |egrep git\|dc
Darwin
dc 4.0.2
Report bugs at: https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc
ggm@GGM-802602 ~ %

finley% uname && dc --version |egrep git\|dc
FreeBSD
dc 5.2.2
Report bugs at: https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc
finley%

On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 1:33 PM Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 23 Jan 2023, 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®™©.
> >
> > Perhaps so, but I try to avoid using Penguin/OS and GNU...  I don't like
> > its licence conditions ("free" it ain't), and I would rather write my own
> > libraries than be constrained by Stallman's conditions.
> >
> > -- Dave
>
> I've dealt with fanboys telling me how to do GPL on my own stuff, and it
> left a sore taste in my mouth.  I don't care about the stuff I *use*, but
> it did leave me very negative about the GPL itself, and if it seems that
> some of the OS-building stuff I've been talking about here and elsewhere
> has anything to do with a grudge against GNU,...well...it does.
>
> Still, GNU does seem to have more respect for precedent than a lot of
> johnny-come-lately coders trying to reimplement stuff themselves.
>
> -uso.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-23  3:40 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
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 [this message]
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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