From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Return-Path: <moss@cs.umass.edu>
Received: from mailsrv.cs.umass.edu (mailsrv.cs.umass.edu [128.119.240.136])
 by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EC05A385840C
 for <cygwin@cygwin.com>; Sat, 19 Mar 2022 18:23:15 +0000 (GMT)
DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 sourceware.org EC05A385840C
Authentication-Results: sourceware.org;
 dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=cs.umass.edu
Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=cs.umass.edu
Received: from [192.168.50.148] (c-24-62-201-179.hsd1.ma.comcast.net
 [24.62.201.179])
 by mailsrv.cs.umass.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 742A84023BAD;
 Sat, 19 Mar 2022 14:23:15 -0400 (EDT)
Reply-To: moss@cs.umass.edu
Subject: Re: this must be a common problem, but repeated searching is not
 finding an answer
To: Clayton Cramer <clayton@claytoncramer.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
References: <79540473-1c96-9a9a-0c19-3c5ecded6b27@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
 <f8b2a286-7073-c168-a395-d149da64a16f@claytoncramer.com>
From: Eliot Moss <moss@cs.umass.edu>
Message-ID: <3517a7e4-8b44-d45c-1647-a6b4b19488a8@cs.umass.edu>
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2022 14:23:15 -0400
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101
 Thunderbird/68.12.1
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <f8b2a286-7073-c168-a395-d149da64a16f@claytoncramer.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
Content-Language: en-US
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, JMQ_SPF_NEUTRAL,
 KAM_DMARC_STATUS, NICE_REPLY_A, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, TXREP,
 T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on
 server2.sourceware.org
X-BeenThere: cygwin@cygwin.com
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29
Precedence: list
List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports <cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://cygwin.com/mailman/options/cygwin>,
 <mailto:cygwin-request@cygwin.com?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-request@cygwin.com?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://cygwin.com/mailman/listinfo/cygwin>,
 <mailto:cygwin-request@cygwin.com?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2022 18:23:17 -0000


bc is available in Cygwin.

Note that Cygwin is not a single thing, but a library that provides a pretty
faithful mapping from POSIX library calls to Windows ones, PLUS a large number
of packages, individually installable (modulo their dependencies on one
another), of Posix compatible tools recompiled for Cygwin (often with patches
to make them compile properly under Cygwin).

bc is (logically enough) in the bc package.

Regards - Eliot Moss