Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 11/14/08 06:46, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:25:27PM +0100, François Cerbelle  wrote:
[snip]
> > You should try "bc". I'm sure that you can type in everything you can type
> > in your GUI based calculator.
>
> Right.
>
>   bc - An arbitrary precision calculator language
>
> $ bc
> bc 1.06.94
> Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> For details type `warranty'.
> 1/2
> 0
>
>
> Oh, you mean I had to set this strange thing called 'scale'? Why can't I 
> get it to default to something more reasonable? There's at least not a 
> method documented in the man page.

You're just being closed-minded.

$ alias bcl
alias bcl='bc -l'

$ bcl
bc 1.06.94
Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2006 Free Software 
Foundation, Inc.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type `warranty'.
1/2
.50000000000000000000

I wish there were a ~/.bcrc to auto-set the scale, but the world 
won't come to an end if you see a lot of zeros.

--
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

If you don't agree with me, you are worse than Hitler!!!