[dc desk calculator]

[Maxim Abalenkov]

Hello everybody,

Thank you very much for all of your comments and suggestions. Learning the "rare RPN" is exactly the reason behind my interest in `dc`. Thank you and have a great day ahead!

—
Best wishes,
Maxim

Maxim Abalenkov \\ maxim.abalenkov at gmail.com
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> On 13 Jul 2021, at 03:11, Richard L. Hamilton <rlhamil at smart.net> wrote:
> 
> This might be true (that bc and dc are together) for historical reasons. Commercial Unix source has bc as a front end to dc; only the rare RPN fan used dc directly. The GNU version does not do that, their bc is not dependent on dc.
> 
>> On Jul 12, 2021, at 20:04, Richard L. Hamilton <rlhamil at smart.net> wrote:
>> 
>> The bc port includes dc.
>> 
>>> On Jul 12, 2021, at 19:27, raf via macports-users <macports-users at lists.macports.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 06:06:47PM +0300, Maxim Abalenkov <maxim.abalenkov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Dear all,
>>>> 
>>>> How are you? I hope all is well with you. Would you please tell me, if the dc (desk calculator) is available via MacPorts:
>>>> 
>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dc_%28computer_program%29 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dc_(computer_program)>
>>>> 
>>>> I wasn’t able to find via the `port search` command. On the other hand, I wasn’t able to find `dc` in source code either. If you have any hints or pointers, please let me know. Thank you and have a wonderful day ahead!
>>>> 
>>>> —
>>>> Best wishes,
>>>> Maxim
>>> 
>>> /usr/bin/dc is already present.
>>> 
>>>> dc --version
>>> dc (GNU bc 1.06) 1.3
>>> 
>>> Copyright 1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
>>> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE,
>>> to the extent permitted by law.
>>> 
>> 
>> 
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