GNU arbitrary precision calculator & GNU dc, desk calculator

Version:

1.07 & 1.3

Release date:

Wednesday, 22 May, 2019

Home:

https://www.gnu.org/software/bc/

Categories:

License:

GPL

Interface:

VIO

Italiano

Authors/Port authors:

A. Kohl, Netlabs

Bc is an arbitrary precision numeric processing language. Syntax is similar to C, but differs in many substantial areas. It supports interactive execution of statements. bc is a utility included in the POSIX P1003.2/D11 draft standard.

Since the POSIX document does not specify how bc must be implemented, this version does not use the historical method of having bc be a compiler for the dc calculator. This version has a single executable that both compiles the language and runs the resulting `byte code'. The byte code is not the dc language

This software is distributed in two modes:

as compressed package that you have to download and manually install; if prerequisites are required, you will have to manually install them too;
as RPM package; you can install it using your favorite rpm package manager, that will take care to download and install both the software and its prerequisites.

Choose the installation mode that you prefer. Please note that not all the versions are available in both the installation modes.

Installation with rpm

This program is installable using the rpm package manager. See below for the install string. Required prerequisites are automatically processed by the package manager and, if needed, downloaded and installed.

bc-1.07-1.oc00 (22/05/2019)

Repository: Netlabs stable

install with ANPM or running the command:
```
yum install bc
```
manually download as ZIP file package:
http://rpm.netlabs.org/release/00/zip/bc-1_07_1-1_oc00.zip

Readme/What's new

This is GNU bc version 1.07.1. (And dc version 1.4.1) Changes in bc from 1.07 to 1.07.1. Fixed ibase extension causing problems for read() Fixed parallel make problem.

Manual installation

Program is distributed as ZIP package: download to temporary directory and unpack to destination folder. See below for download link(s).

Following is a list of prerequisites that you have to manually install in order to have the program working:

You can install the prerequisites with rpm running the following string in a command line:

yum install emxrt libc libcx libgcc1 libssp libstdc++6 libstdc++ libsupc++6 libsupc++ libgcc-fwd

Following ones are the download links for manual installation:

GNU bc v. 1.06 (6/12/2007)
hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/apps/calc/bc-1.06-os2.zip
GNU dc v. 1.02 (31/1/1995)
hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/apps/calc/gnudc.zip
GNU bc v. 1.02 (30/1/1995)
hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/apps/calc/gnubc.zip