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' :1 On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 2:09 PM Joseph Holsten wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2023, at 06:15, Dan Cross wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 10:41 PM George Michaelson > 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. >