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From: zzapper <david AT tvis DOT co DOT uk>
Subject: Re: Obvious Tip: Calling Windows "Calc" from Prompt
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 20:49:49 +0100
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On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 18:42:27 +0100,  wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of zzapper
>> Sent: 06 August 2004 18:34
>
>> On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 22:53:20 +0100,  wrote:
>> 
>> You can also script bc
>> echo 2+4 | bc -l 
>
>
>  For the quickest command-line calculator, if you're using bash you can
>just use arithmetic expansion, e.g:
>
>dk AT mace /davek> echo $(( 5 * 23 + 17 ))
>132
>dk AT mace /davek>
>
>
DK
Fantastic, It always amazes how (at the risk sometimes of getting a right-royal slagging off) how a
pushing an idea in a NG, can bring forth so many good ideas and variants.

I had been using Win-Calc for years, but often had to repeat calculations (VaT etc) because I'd
already forgotten the result. However if you write it at the prompt with your echo idea, it's
sitting there in your history to be recalled-re-editted.

Well that's good-bye to yet another Win-App

echo "Thanx Dave Korn,"

zzapper (vim, cygwin, wiki & zsh)
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