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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!192.239.17.140!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.apfel.de!nntp.uio.no!uninett.no!news.uni-c.dk!news.uni-c.dk!news.ehs.dk!172.17.3.60 From: Kent Friis </dev/null@ehs.dk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris,alt.fan.e-t-b Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list? Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 11:40:21 -0700 Organization: Esbjerg Business College Lines: 30 Message-ID: <3385E495.5BC1@ehs.dk> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <5lii72$f0@sjx-ixn3.ix.netcom.com> <5lnfod$q8@news.inforamp.net> <5lpepe$8ca@info.service.rug.nl> <5lpp53$uh3$1@news.netusa.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: mnemosyne.ehs.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win95; I; 16bit) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45351 comp.os.linux.misc:176676 comp.os.linux.x:62338 alt.os.linux:21510 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3390 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41499 gnu.misc.discuss:31454 comp.unix.solaris:107413 Eli the Bearded wrote: > > Basic Calculator is what I have heard. It is a "friendly" front end to > the HP style dc (desk calculator). dc is a reverse polish notation > (postfix stack) calculator, bc is an infix calculator. Compare: > > :r! echo "502 / 65 + 17 * 4 ^ 3" | bc > 1095 > > :r! echo "502 65 / 4 3 ^ 17 * + p" | dc > 1095 Actually it should be: $ echo "502 65 / 17 4 3 ^ * + p" | dc 1095 to be exactly the same as the bc version. > > Both round to intergers by default. > Kent -- Anti spammer email: use "d5kf" instead of "/dev/null" You haven't seen _multitasking_ until you have seen Doom and Quake run side by side.