Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lsuc.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!dave From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) Newsgroups: net.wanted.sources Subject: Re: wanted: simple, user-friendly UNIX calculator Message-ID: <436@lsuc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 20-Feb-85 12:46:11 EST Article-I.D.: lsuc.436 Posted: Wed Feb 20 12:46:11 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 20-Feb-85 13:37:20 EST References: <429@lsuc.UUCP> <167@redwood.UUCP> Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman) Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto Lines: 31 Summary: hoc6 ain't it either In article <167@redwood.UUCP> rpw3@redwood.UUCP (Rob Warnock) writes: ||+--------------- ||| ... 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. ||| Dave Sherman ||+--------------- || ||K & P's "hoc6" was posted to net.sources last June (1984) by ||(by permission from Prentice-Hall). Check your local/nearby net.sources ||archives... I thought I made that clear with my original posting. hoc6 isn't what I want either, but if I have to I can go back and build what I need by following the hoc creation. I don't want variables. I just want exactly what you get when you use a dummy physical $5 calculator. That's something law students can understand. I have hoc6 running here, and if I type 2+2= I get hoc: syntax error near line 1 I'm sure putting in code to ignore an '=' isn't hard, but that's just one of the things which need doing to make it usable by *anyone*. Dave Sherman -- {utzoo pesnta nrcaero utcs hcr}!lsuc!dave {allegra decvax ihnp4 linus}!utcsri!lsuc!dave