From: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 12:32:10 +1100
To: Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org>
Message-ID-Hash: RIRTCTTV7YMXWX7NK7V5PKZE6ER77XY6
CC: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: interesting case of not getting the point: dc on a mac
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Pretty much everything in the dc man page on my mac raises my hackles. Not
limited to changing behavior when you're on a TTY. (Also: NO ONE HAS BEEN
ON A TTY FOR DECADES!)

I am such an old grump.

-rob


On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 11:41 AM Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org> wrote:

> Probably because MacOS moved things around or is intent on breaking things?
> I didn't investigate. It compiles fine on FreeBSD.
>
> On Jan 22, 2023, at 4:20 PM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> How do you write a dc that doesn't compile?
>
> The mind reels.
>
> On Sun, Jan 22, 2023, 7:16 PM Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org> wrote:
>
>> dc -V on MacOS shows 4.0.2. Repo link in the output of dc -V.
>> The current version is 6.2.2 but it doesn't compile on Ventura.
>>
>> > On Jan 22, 2023, at 3:39 PM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > dc
>> > >>>
>> >
>> > it prompts with '>>> '
>> >
>> > wonder where that came from? First time I've seen it.
>> >
>> > Seems to have a certain lack of understanding attached to it.
>>
>>
>