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From: rad@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA
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Subject: Seven year-old fibs in documentation
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Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 15:24:24 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 20 15:24:24 1985
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     One of our users asked us why one of the dc(1) commands didn't
work.  He said that when he typed "f", dc only printed the stack, and
not the registers.  Excerpting from "DC - An Interactive Desk Calculator,"
November 1978:

	"f
		All values on the stack and in registers are printed."

     I took a peek at the source on both BSD4.1 and 4.2 systems, and
there just isn't any code there for the register print-out.  The
documentation fibs.

     Does anybody have a version of dc that really has this feature and
so agrees with the Bell Labs documentation?  I'm not that hurt that it
isn't in there, but I thought it was curious to have slipped by for so
long.

Dick Dramstad
rad@mitre-bedford.arpa


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