Very cool! I'll try this out tomorrow. On Wed, Sep 2, 2020, 4:27 PM Steve Nickolas <[email protected]> wrote:
> So last month I raided NetBSD's repo for a project I'm working on, and I > found something familiar there - GNU's bc, under a different license. I > ported it to Linux, then to DOS using Borland C++ 3.1. (It's a > calculator. It has its quirks but I've been using it as my calculator > tool of choice for many years on Linux, Windows and 32-bit DOS.) > > Last night I sent an e-mail to the author asking if he was able to do the > same with dc, and expressing curiosity at the license change. He said he > wasn't (since dc was written by someone else, just shared some of its code > with bc), and explained that he had balked at the GPL3, but that he had > retained rights to the code so that he could maintain it separately for > Minix. (so when I surmised it was like what is going on with ncurses, I > appear to have been correct.) NetBSD needed a bc, and he was a fan of > theirs, so he provided them the same bc he maintained for GNU, under a > 3-clause BSD license, and that's the one I ported to DOS. > > So here's what I've kitbashed quickly and dirtily. As far as I can tell, > it is equivalent and nearly identical to the current (1.07.1) GNU version. > I don't really care what if anything you do with it, I just figured I'd > link it. > > http://6.buric.co/dosbc.zip > > -uso. > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel >
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