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From: Craig Leres <leres@ee.lbl.gov>
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Subject: How about upgrading bc to 1.04?
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>Number:         4183
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       How about upgrading bc to 1.04?
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    andreas
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jul 27 21:50:00 PDT 1997
>Closed-Date:    Wed Apr 29 15:22:59 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:  Wed Apr 29 15:23:48 PDT 1998
>Originator:     Craig Leres
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
>Environment:

	

>Description:

	2.2.2-RELEASE ships with bc 1.03 but 1.04 has been out since
	April. (In particular, 1.04 defaults to DOT_IS_LAST, making
	dot be the value of the last expression.)

>How-To-Repeat:

	% bc -l
	bc 1.03 (Nov 2, 1994)
	Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
	This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
	For details type `warranty'. 
	.
	(standard_in) 1: illegal character: .

>Fix:

	ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/bc-1.04.tar.gz
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->suspended 
State-Changed-By: phk 
State-Changed-When: Sun Apr 19 11:04:46 PDT 1998 
State-Changed-Why:  
Great idea, now who does it ? 
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->andreas 
Responsible-Changed-By: andreas 
Responsible-Changed-When: Wed Apr 29 10:17:00 PDT 1998 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Will give it a try ;-) 
I suggest importing bc-1.04 to the contrib tree and 
creating Berkeley Makefiles in gnu/usr.bin/bc 
give me some time.... ;-) 
State-Changed-From-To: suspended->closed 
State-Changed-By: andreas 
State-Changed-When: Wed Apr 29 15:22:59 PDT 1998 
State-Changed-Why:  
imported new bc-1.0.4, also upgraded dc. 
>Unformatted:
