Seems to work for me too, as much as I am familiar with *bc*. I'll post a news item about this.
I'll also plan to mirror this on ibiblio - but the ibiblio folks recently upgraded the server, and they temporarily disabled logins. I should have access in a day or two, and I'll mirror this to ibiblio then. Jim On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 2:44 AM Jim Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > Very cool! I'll try this out tomorrow. > > On Wed, Sep 2, 2020, 4:27 PM Steve Nickolas <[email protected]> wrote: > >> So last month I raided NetBSD's repo for a project I'm working on, and I >> found something familiar there - GNU's bc, under a different license. I >> ported it to Linux, then to DOS using Borland C++ 3.1. (It's a >> calculator. It has its quirks but I've been using it as my calculator >> tool of choice for many years on Linux, Windows and 32-bit DOS.) >> >> Last night I sent an e-mail to the author asking if he was able to do the >> same with dc, and expressing curiosity at the license change. He said he >> wasn't (since dc was written by someone else, just shared some of its >> code >> with bc), and explained that he had balked at the GPL3, but that he had >> retained rights to the code so that he could maintain it separately for >> Minix. (so when I surmised it was like what is going on with ncurses, I >> appear to have been correct.) NetBSD needed a bc, and he was a fan of >> theirs, so he provided them the same bc he maintained for GNU, under a >> 3-clause BSD license, and that's the one I ported to DOS. >> >> So here's what I've kitbashed quickly and dirtily. As far as I can tell, >> it is equivalent and nearly identical to the current (1.07.1) GNU >> version. >> I don't really care what if anything you do with it, I just figured I'd >> link it. >> >> http://6.buric.co/dosbc.zip >> >> -uso. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel >> >
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