From: Clayton Cramer <clayton@claytoncramer.com>
To: moss@cs.umass.edu, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: this must be a common problem, but repeated searching is not finding an answer
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2022 12:33:02 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9fdcbc14-becc-bfdd-5e06-8a621c1cc592@claytoncramer.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3517a7e4-8b44-d45c-1647-a6b4b19488a8@cs.umass.edu>
Cygwin Setup - Select Packages says there are no packages to install or
update. No is there a bc executable under \cygwin
On 3/19/2022 12:23 PM, Eliot Moss wrote:
>
> 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
--
“I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-19 18:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-19 17:57 Brian Inglis
2022-03-19 18:15 ` Clayton Cramer
2022-03-19 18:23 ` Eliot Moss
2022-03-19 18:33 ` Clayton Cramer [this message]
2022-03-19 20:55 ` Eliot Moss
2022-03-19 21:51 ` Clayton Cramer
2022-03-19 23:18 ` Gary Johnson
2022-03-20 15:04 ` Clayton Cramer
2022-03-19 23:19 ` Eliot Moss
2022-03-19 23:24 ` Joel Rees
2022-03-20 2:20 ` clayton
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-03-19 14:49 Clayton Cramer
2022-03-19 15:11 ` Achim Gratz
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