Re: Very slim Desktop Manager
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:25:27PM +0100, François Cerbelle wrote:
>
> Le Ven 14 novembre 2008 12:05, lee a écrit :
> [...]
> > With dc or bc, you need to figure out how to use them. An hour later or
> > so you might be able to calculate 2+5. With qalculate (or other GUI
> > calculators), you type 2+5 and get the result, just like you do with a
> > calculator. dc only says "stack empty", whatever that's supposed to
> > mean.
> 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.
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