Hi, On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 4:27 PM Steve Nickolas <usots...@buric.co> wrote: > > GNU's bc ... I ported it to DOS using Borland C++ 3.1
I'll be honest, although I've heard of it, I'm not directly familiar with the syntax of "bc", but thanks for the port! I'll look closer eventually. (The makefile is a bit confusing and could use some cleanups, IMO.) > 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), Years ago, one guy (Greg Ubben) wrote most of a "dc" clone in Sed (presumably p.d. since .mil)! * http://sed.sourceforge.net/local/scripts/dc.sed.html While I've not really used this script at all, I have delved a lot into Sed, even on DOS. > 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 ... 3-clause BSD license, and that's the one I ported to DOS. > > http://6.buric.co/dosbc.zip Jim has mirrored this to iBiblio now: * http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/unix/bc/ Thanks again. _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
