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From: Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com>
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 17:59:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP2nic1R4yx5EkZ+zAxaZKo4m47kvJgs5bC5L0gULN0oaSTv5A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f1548416-6d17-41c1-af89-5d9768943d66@app.fastmail.com>

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I was hoping for a better easter egg.  I dunno about y'all but when I see
">>>" .... my mind goes a certain place.  Alas, no.

adam@m1-wired:~/git/phalanx/services/nublado$ dc
>>> boot dqa0

Parse error: bad character 't'
    <stdin>:1

On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 2:09 PM Joseph Holsten <joseph@josephholsten.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 23, 2023, at 06:15, Dan Cross wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 10:41 PM George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org>
> wrote:
> >> I should also also add, Mac has >>> as  Rob noted. FreeBSD doesn't
> >
> > Hmm, interesting. I wonder what version of macOS you both are running?
> > My old trashcan Mac (soon to be replaced!) is running the
> > next-to-most-recent version and doesn't have the `>>> ` prompt. My
> > laptop, running the latest (Ventura?) does.
> >
> > I don't think I blame Apple for this, but rather something upstream of
> them.
>
> Per https://opensource.apple.com/releases/, they switched from
> macOS Monterey 12 with GNU bc 1.06
> https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/bc/tree/bc-21/bc
> to macOS 13 with GH bc 4.0.2
> https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/bc/tree/bc-26/bc
>
> I suspect this is similar to the replacement of bash with zsh for GPL
> avoidance.
>
> Interesting timeline though, https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc/src/tag/4.0.2
> was released in 2021-05-01, https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc/src/tag/5.0.0
> in 2021-08-08.
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-24  1:00 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
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 [this message]
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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