bc & dc

bc & dc

[Lewis Mammel]

I can't find bc or dc in the setup catalogue, nor
any mention in the FAQ. Why not? I must have dc!

I found a site, http://lassauge.free.fr/cygwin/en_cygwin.htm
that has a bc package, ( which I believe contains dc ), but
I don't know how to download it. When I click on "download"
it just displays gobbledygook.

Any help will be much appreciated.  I can't understand
why this isn't in setup.exe ! ( which worked very smoothly for me. )

Lew Mammel, Jr.

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Re: bc & dc

[Randall R Schulz]

Lew,

Presumably the server is either supplying a generic MIME type or none at 
all or your browser does not recognize that type, all of which may stem 
from the as-yet still relatively uncommon bzip2 compression format and the 
equally uncommon .bz2 suffix.

For what it's worth, my Netscape 6.2 does the same thing.

Use the context menu and explicitly request to save the link to a file.

Personally, I like Artis-11C (vers. 2) as a general-purpose calculator.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 18:19 2001-12-15, Lewis Mammel wrote:
>I can't find bc or dc in the setup catalogue, nor any mention in the FAQ. 
>Why not? I must have dc!
>
>I found a site, http://lassauge.free.fr/cygwin/en_cygwin.htm that has a bc 
>package, ( which I believe contains dc ), but I don't know how to download 
>it. When I click on "download" it just displays gobbledygook.
>
>Any help will be much appreciated.  I can't understand why this isn't in 
>setup.exe ! ( which worked very smoothly for me. )
>
>Lew Mammel, Jr.


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Re: bc & dc

[Lewis Mammel]

Thanks for responses. I used "save link as" and got the
55k package in my /home/default ( also I installed bzip2),
but I get "bzip2: Data integrity error when decompressing."
with tar -xjf options. Is it just a bad file? I see some talk
about a GNU version. Will this work? There's nothing tricky
about the install is there?

Thanks again. Sorry to bother.

Why oh why aren't bc & dc on the Cygwin page ????
They're primal UNIX.

Lew Mammel, Jr.

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Re: bc & dc

[Robert Collins]

Use setup.exe to install bc and dc. Installing by hand is not supported
by this list - you are on your own.

http://www.cygwin.com/packages/bc/ is the link on the cygwin page.

Rob
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Lewis Mammel" <l.mammel@worldnet.att.net>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 7:10 PM
Subject: Re: bc & dc


>
> Thanks for responses. I used "save link as" and got the
> 55k package in my /home/default ( also I installed bzip2),
> but I get "bzip2: Data integrity error when decompressing."
> with tar -xjf options. Is it just a bad file? I see some talk
> about a GNU version. Will this work? There's nothing tricky
> about the install is there?
>
> Thanks again. Sorry to bother.
>
> Why oh why aren't bc & dc on the Cygwin page ????
> They're primal UNIX.
>
> Lew Mammel, Jr.
>
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Re: bc & dc

[Randall R Schulz]

Lew,

It is moot now because Chris Faylor has incorporated the bc/dc package into 
the Cygwin distribution, but the file I retrieved from the site you 
mentioned was intact, at least as far as getting a clean listing from "tar 
jtvf bc-7.1.tar.bz2".

Randall Schulz


At 00:10 2001-12-16, you wrote:
>Thanks for responses. I used "save link as" and got the 55k package in my 
>/home/default ( also I installed bzip2), but I get "bzip2: Data integrity 
>error when decompressing." with tar -xjf options. Is it just a bad file? I 
>see some talk about a GNU version. Will this work? There's nothing tricky 
>about the install is there?
>
>Thanks again. Sorry to bother.
>
>Why oh why aren't bc & dc on the Cygwin page ???? They're primal UNIX.
>
>Lew Mammel, Jr.


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