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Date:	Sat, 24 Mar 2001 11:46:23 -0500
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From:	Daniel Bron <djb235 AT nyu DOT edu>
Subject:	Installing BC
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Hello,

I'm new to cygwin and x-flavored OSes.  I recently installed cygwin because 
I wanted the shell utilities, and DOS batch files weren't cutting it.  I'm 
trying to get the hang of it, and I think I've got some of the fundamentals 
down, but I'm still confused by a lot of the language and don't know many 
of the procedures.  Anyway, I'm currently trying to install the cygwin 
version of BC which I downloaded.  I gunzipped and detarred it, but when I 
tried to use it I got this error message (in a windows dialog box entitled 
"error starting program"):

A required .DLL file, C:\CYGWIN\USR\LOCAL\BIN\BC.EXE, was not found.

Along with a error in the shell reading:

BASH: /usr/local/bin/bc: Permission denied

There is a file named BC in that directory, but not BC.exe.  Because of the 
"permission denied" message I tried chmod 777 BC, but the permissions 
didn't change (I looked this up in the FAQ, and I now know permissions 
can't be changed on Win 9x).  Because of the "BC.EXE not found" error, I 
also I tried renaming bc to bc.exe, but that didn't help.  What am I doing 
wrong?  How can I get bc to work?

Thanks for any help,

-D. Bron


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