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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz@cris.com>
To: l.mammel@worldnet.att.net, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: bc & dc
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 12:28:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20011216075424.026e8c18@pop3.cris.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C1C56F5.4F084273@worldnet.att.net>

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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-12-16 16:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-16  0:14 Lewis Mammel
2001-12-16  0:26 ` Robert Collins
2001-12-16 12:28 ` Randall R Schulz [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-12-15 18:35 Lewis Mammel
2001-12-15 19:14 ` Randall R Schulz

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