Re: this must be a common problem, but repeated searching is not finding an answer

2022-03-20 Thread Clayton Cramer
Thanks.  bc is now installed. On 3/19/2022 5:18 PM, Gary Johnson wrote: On 2022-03-19, Clayton Cramer wrote: On 3/19/2022 2:55 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: You have to select packages explicitly. It does not just blindly install all of them - that's a lot of stuff, and for various reasons not a gre

Re: this must be a common problem, but repeated searching is not finding an answer

2022-03-19 Thread clayton
Thanks to all. I will go back and make sure I have selected bc as well.I clearly did not understand the selection mechanism. > > On Mar 19, 2022 at 5:25 PM, Joel Reeswrote: > > > > > > > > 2022年3月20日(日) 8:19 Eliot Moss : > > > On

Re: this must be a common problem, but repeated searching is not finding an answer

2022-03-19 Thread Joel Rees
2022年3月20日(日) 8:19 Eliot Moss : > On 3/19/2022 5:51 PM, Clayton Cramer wrote: > > I installed everything, but that does not seem to include bc. > > So you went through and explicitly asked for each package? > If you did, then that would include bc, since it is one of > the packages. I'm now confu

Re: this must be a common problem, but repeated searching is not finding an answer

2022-03-19 Thread Eliot Moss
On 3/19/2022 5:51 PM, Clayton Cramer wrote: I installed everything, but that does not seem to include bc. So you went through and explicitly asked for each package? If you did, then that would include bc, since it is one of the packages. I'm now confused. How did you request "everything"? Re

Re: this must be a common problem, but repeated searching is not finding an answer

2022-03-19 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2022-03-19, Clayton Cramer wrote: > On 3/19/2022 2:55 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: > >You have to select packages explicitly. > > > >It does not just blindly install all of them - that's a lot of stuff, > >and for various reasons not a great idea.  Install what you need. > I installed everything, but

Re: this must be a common problem, but repeated searching is not finding an answer

2022-03-19 Thread Clayton Cramer
I installed everything, but that does not seem to include bc. On 3/19/2022 2:55 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: You have to select packages explicitly. It does not just blindly install all of them - that's a lot of stuff, and for various reasons not a great idea.  Install what you need. -- “I look to

Re: this must be a common problem, but repeated searching is not finding an answer

2022-03-19 Thread Eliot Moss
On 3/19/2022 2:33 PM, Clayton Cramer wrote: Cygwin Setup - Select Packages says there are no packages to install or update.  No is there a bc executable under \cygwin You have to select packages explicitly. It does not just blindly install all of them - that's a lot of stuff, and for various r

Re: this must be a common problem, but repeated searching is not finding an answer

2022-03-19 Thread Clayton Cramer
Cygwin Setup - Select Packages says there are no packages to install or update.  No is there a bc executable under \cygwin On 3/19/2022 12:23 PM, Eliot Moss wrote: bc is available in Cygwin. Note that Cygwin is not a single thing, but a library that provides a pretty faithful mapping from PO

Re: this must be a common problem, but repeated searching is not finding an answer

2022-03-19 Thread Eliot Moss
bc is available in Cygwin. Note that Cygwin is not a single thing, but a library that provides a pretty faithful mapping from POSIX library calls to Windows ones, PLUS a large number of packages, individually installable (modulo their dependencies on one another), of Posix compatible tools reco

Re: this must be a common problem, but repeated searching is not finding an answer

2022-03-19 Thread Clayton Cramer
Running bc by itself gave the same error message. Just in case that bc was not part of cygwin, I deleted it and reran the install.  It did not seem to have bc listed as a component to install.  My PATH is now: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/cygdrive/c/Windows/system32:/cygdrive/c/Windows:/cygdrive/

Re: this must be a common problem, but repeated searching is not finding an answer

2022-03-19 Thread Brian Inglis
On Sat, 19 Mar 2022 08:12:15 -0700, Achim Gratz wrote: Clayton Cramer writes: I installed everything from the setup program, but executing bc gives "The code execution cannot proceed because readline4.dll was not found. Reinstalling the program may fix this problem." From where do I get readli

Re: this must be a common problem, but repeated searching is not finding an answer

2022-03-19 Thread Achim Gratz
Clayton Cramer writes: > I installed everything from the setup program, but executing bc gives > "The code execution cannot proceed because readline4.dll was not > found.  Reinstalling the program may fix this problem."  From where do > I get readline4.dll? Cygwin's bc does not depend on this libr

this must be a common problem, but repeated searching is not finding an answer

2022-03-19 Thread Clayton Cramer
I installed everything from the setup program, but executing bc gives "The code execution cannot proceed because readline4.dll was not found.  Reinstalling the program may fix this problem."  From where do I get readline4.dll? -- “I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of