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From: Clint Adams <clint@zsh.org>
To: Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>
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Subject: Re: forcing output type
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In-Reply-To: <20010923181623.B15106@fysh.org>; from zefram@fysh.org on Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 06:16:23PM +0100

> But I wonder why you want to do this at all.  What application do you
> have in mind?

I have encountered some people that have functions that pipe the arguments
to 'bc -l', and it seems as though the dependency on bc could be dropped
rather easily.