From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18763 invoked from network); 15 Sep 1999 17:59:45 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 15 Sep 1999 17:59:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 19897 invoked by alias); 15 Sep 1999 17:59:40 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 7859 Received: (qmail 19890 invoked from network); 15 Sep 1999 17:59:39 -0000 Message-Id: <199909151759.NAA03101@ursula.cortexmachina.com> To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: Floating point support? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Sep 1999 09:16:19 +0200." <199909150716.JAA30604@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 13:59:28 -0400 From: Peter Whaite Sven Wischnowsky said: > > Peter Stephenson wrote: > > > I'm thinking about adding some floating point support to zsh; this is just > > to canvas opinions. > > Yes! Yes. Its very useful in ksh93 (pksh). > > > My idea is to add a floating point parameter type, > > together with support in math evaluations (which would involve stuff like > > promoting integers to floats etc.). > > That's what I was thinking about, too. > > > ... > > > > - Is anyone able to summarise what the status is with other shells > > (particularly ksh)? > > I once looked for floating point support in ksh, but don't remember > everything, so... http://www.kornshell.com (sorry ;-) http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~jlk/kornshell/doc/man93.html http://members.xoom.com/_XOOM/dfrench/kshman93.html You could also download UWIN from http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/ and that would give you a man page, and an "official" ksh, for NT/98/95. --- peta