Subject: Re: replacement for bc(1), dc(1), diff(1), and diff(3)
To: Otto Moerbeek <otto@drijf.net>
From: Phil Nelson <phil@cs.wwu.edu>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 03/27/2005 07:57:52
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On Sunday 27 March 2005 07:24, Phil Nelson wrote:
> On Sunday 27 March 2005 04:11, you wrote:
> > That's 68 digits, a backslash and 3 digits.
> > Line lenght is 69
>
> You are right. GNU bc is wrong.
Well, after thinking about this for a while, I went back to the ChangeLog a=
nd=20
found a change in March of 1995 where I changed the line length to 68=20
numbers, the backslash and then the linefeed for a total of 70 characters. =
I=20
was convinced by someone else that POSIX line lengths include the linefeed.
My first implementation did it the same way that your bc does it.
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