the version of bc that comes with cygwin, is bc 1.06.95 it works fine from within the cygwin environment, but from cmd it doesn't process \r
C:\cygwin\bin>echo 5+4|.\bc (standard_in) 1: illegal character: ^M C:\cygwin\bin> C:\cygwin\bin>echo 5+4|tr -d '\r'|.\bc 9 C:\cygwin\bin> Whereas I notice that Gow uses 1.06 And that does work with \r in cmd C:\Program Files (x86)\Gow\bin>.\bc -v bc 1.06 Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 F C:\Program Files (x86)\Gow\bin> And it works fine with \r C:\Program Files (x86)\Gow\bin>echo 5+4|.\bc 9 C:\Program Files (x86)\Gow\bin> -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
