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From: rpw3@redwood.UUCP (Rob Warnock)
Newsgroups: net.wanted.sources
Subject: Re: wanted: simple, user-friendly UNIX calculator
Message-ID: <167@redwood.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 19-Feb-85 19:52:34 EST
Article-I.D.: redwood.167
Posted: Tue Feb 19 19:52:34 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 20-Feb-85 06:48:19 EST
References: <429@lsuc.UUCP>
Organization: [Consultant], Foster City, CA
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| ... students need access to an on-line calculator. Right now
| I invoke "bc" when they request a calculator, but it's far from
| ideal...  So, I'd like a calculator which will: [...list of features...]
| If no-one has one like this, I guess I'll work from Kernighan & Pike
| and construct one using lex & yacc. But I really don't have the time.
| 	{utzoo pesnta nrcaero utcs hcr}!lsuc!dave
| 	{allegra decvax ihnp4 linus}!utcsri!lsuc!dave
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K & P's "hoc6" was posted to net.sources last June (1984) by <nlm-vax!lef>
(by permission from Prentice-Hall). Check your local/nearby net.sources
archives. <nlm-vax!lef> posted one followup bug fix, which I include in
case the archive doesn't have it:

	The fourth line (#define code3...) should be
	appended by the following text:
		; code (c3)

I compiled it (with the above fix) and it seemed to work just fine.


Rob Warnock
Systems Architecture Consultant

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