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Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 08:00:44 -0800
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: bc & dc
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Lew,

It is moot now because Chris Faylor has incorporated the bc/dc package into 
the Cygwin distribution, but the file I retrieved from the site you 
mentioned was intact, at least as far as getting a clean listing from "tar 
jtvf bc-7.1.tar.bz2".

Randall Schulz


At 00:10 2001-12-16, you wrote:
>Thanks for responses. I used "save link as" and got the 55k package in my 
>/home/default ( also I installed bzip2), but I get "bzip2: Data integrity 
>error when decompressing." with tar -xjf options. Is it just a bad file? I 
>see some talk about a GNU version. Will this work? There's nothing tricky 
>about the install is there?
>
>Thanks again. Sorry to bother.
>
>Why oh why aren't bc & dc on the Cygwin page ???? They're primal UNIX.
>
>Lew Mammel, Jr.


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