resizing window when using "bc" in interactive mode

matt henschel henschel at capaccess.org
Sun Aug 11 13:20:49 UTC 2024


On Aug 11, 2024, at 00:03, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
>
> The MacPorts version uses MacPorts supplied libraries (other than libSystem). The macOS version uses macOS supplied libraries. (ultimately from the same open source projects, but potentially different versions and build options, so not identical code)

On  Sun, 11 Aug 2024 02:08:11 -0500, Ryan Carsten Schmidt wrote:
>It's *not* the same software. MacPorts has GNU bc 1.07 which is licensed GPL-3. macOS used to have GNU bc 1.06 released back in 2000 under GPL-2. Apple has switched to someone else's bc implementation in recent macOS probably because as we know Apple is allergic to GPL-3.

It's the sonoma one that's broken here.  I just assumed bc was from
macports.  Thankfully the macports one fixed it.  That's funny about
the GPL thing; sounds about right. Sorry for the false alarm; glad I
didn't open a bug report. Thanks!
-matt


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