Re: Obvious Tip: Calling Windows "Calc" from Prompt

2004-08-06 Thread zzapper
On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 18:42:27 +0100, wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of zzapper >> Sent: 06 August 2004 18:34 > >> On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 22:53:20 +0100, wrote: >> >> You can also script bc >> echo 2+4 | bc -l > > > For the quickest command-line calculator, if

RE: Obvious Tip: Calling Windows "Calc" from Prompt

2004-08-06 Thread Robert McNulty Junior
OK. No ME anymore, just got XP home back online. Don't worry about the DLL Problem. I'm rebuilding any way for XP home. No more ME. Dead and gone. Cygwin is back in its proper place, so I won't put the tools under the DOS prompt any more. Robert Robert McNulty Junior wrote: > Zzapper, I plac

RE: Obvious Tip: Calling Windows "Calc" from Prompt

2004-08-06 Thread Dave Korn
> -Original Message- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of zzapper > Sent: 06 August 2004 18:34 > On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 22:53:20 +0100, wrote: > > You can also script bc > echo 2+4 | bc -l For the quickest command-line calculator, if you're using bash you can just use arithmetic expansion

Re: Obvious Tip: Calling Windows "Calc" from Prompt

2004-08-06 Thread Shankar Unni
Robert McNulty Junior wrote: Zzapper, I placed c:\cygwin\bin;C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin in my path and to timidity to work. One small word of warning: there are tools out there (gaim, wincvs, etc.) that like to look for installed (non-cygwin) subsystems like TCL or Python by just doing a search for

Re: Obvious Tip: Calling Windows "Calc" from Prompt

2004-08-06 Thread zzapper
On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 22:53:20 +0100, wrote: You can also script bc echo 2+4 | bc -l zzapper (vim, cygwin, wiki & zsh) -- vim -c ":%s%s*%CyrnfrTfcbafbeROenzSZbbyranne%|:%s)[R-T]) )Ig|:norm G1VGg?" http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=305 Best of Vim Tips -- Unsubscribe info: http://cy

Re: Obvious Tip: Calling Windows "Calc" from Prompt

2004-08-05 Thread zzapper
On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 16:34:24 -0500, wrote: >one words: bc >8-) > >somebody wrote on 08/05/2004 04:28:50 PM: >> >whence calc >> /c/WINDOWS/system32/calc >> >> Of course I may be the only one who didn't know this!!! > Thanx,how come I forgot bc? I remember there was also a reverse polish calculato

Re: Obvious Tip: Calling Windows "Calc" from Prompt

2004-08-05 Thread Fred Kulack
one words: bc 8-) somebody wrote on 08/05/2004 04:28:50 PM: > >whence calc > /c/WINDOWS/system32/calc > > Of course I may be the only one who didn't know this!!! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentat

RE: Obvious Tip: Calling Windows "Calc" from Prompt

2004-08-05 Thread Robert McNulty Junior
Zzapper, I placed c:\cygwin\bin;C:\cygwin\usr\local\bin in my path and to timidity to work. It will even make music from the MS prompt. I'm using Windows ME now. Got fed up with Windows XP Corperate. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http:/

Obvious Tip: Calling Windows "Calc" from Prompt

2004-08-05 Thread zzapper
Hi, I got fed up going to Start-Run-Calc, and just typed calc from my CygWin prompt and up she came! Of course I've got system32 in my $path >whence calc /c/WINDOWS/system32/calc Of course I may be the only one who didn't know this!!! zzapper (vim, cygwin, wiki & zsh) -- vim -c ":%s%s*%CyrnfrT