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From: beattie@visenix.UUCP (Brian Beattie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Seeking SideKick-/spreadsheet-type functionality for AT&T 3B2
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Date: 30 Oct 90 15:20:59 GMT
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In article <4254@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
-In article <E6R6K6C@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
->have "bc" shipped with UNIX?
-
-bc is much less user-friendly than, say, an HP-16C...or the rpn program
-that emulates it (albeit incompletely) for Unix. I have to wrestle bc to
-get an answer out of it, but I can get answers out of a 16C without having
-to think about it...kinda like WordStar.

Then just try "dc"

Myself I could never get my head around rpn.
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