From: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
To: Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org>
Cc: 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 12:32:10 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKzdPgzD5bhfLiSix=G6QuxCTgqaVMEU3_Y9wZMfaftzdxOaBw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F810CF74-9EDC-40CB-872A-23D28531CBB1@iitbombay.org>
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Pretty much everything in the dc man page on my mac raises my hackles. Not
limited to changing behavior when you're on a TTY. (Also: NO ONE HAS BEEN
ON A TTY FOR DECADES!)
I am such an old grump.
-rob
On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 11:41 AM Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org> wrote:
> Probably because MacOS moved things around or is intent on breaking things?
> I didn't investigate. It compiles fine on FreeBSD.
>
> On Jan 22, 2023, at 4:20 PM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> How do you write a dc that doesn't compile?
>
> The mind reels.
>
> On Sun, Jan 22, 2023, 7:16 PM Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org> wrote:
>
>> dc -V on MacOS shows 4.0.2. Repo link in the output of dc -V.
>> The current version is 6.2.2 but it doesn't compile on Ventura.
>>
>> > On Jan 22, 2023, at 3:39 PM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > dc
>> > >>>
>> >
>> > it prompts with '>>> '
>> >
>> > wonder where that came from? First time I've seen it.
>> >
>> > Seems to have a certain lack of understanding attached to it.
>>
>>
>
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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
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 [this message]
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