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- This is Debian GNU/Linux's prepackaged version of the FSF's GNU bc and dc
- utilities. GNU bc is an interactive algebraic language with arbitrary
- precision. GNU dc is a reverse-polish desk calculator which supports
- unlimited precision arithmetic. bc was written by Phil Nelson, Ken Pizzini
- wrote dc.
-
- bc was previously maintained by Bill Mitchell, Austin Donnelly and James
- Troup. The current package was put together by Dirk Eddelbuettel
- <edd@debian.org> from the GNU sources from
- ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bc/bc-1.06.tar.gz
- Changes are documented in the changelog.Debian file, and below.
-
- James Troup, the previous maintainer made the following changes :-
-
- o adding support for the Debian package maintenance scheme, by adding
- various debian/* files.
- o bc/scan.l (rc_len): define as int not char, to allow input > 128
- characters in length without crashing.
- o configure.in: changed test for readline to use READLINELIB and not
- LIBS so we can link just bc with readline (as dc doesn't use it).
- o bc/Makefile.am (LDADD): add @READLINELIB@
-
-
- Program Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997 Free Software
- Foundation, Inc.
- Modifications for Debian Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 1999 James Troup.
- Further modifications for Debian Copyright (C) 1999 Dirk Eddelbuettel.
-
- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
- any later version.
-
- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
- WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
- General Public License for more details.
-
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License with your
- Debian GNU/Linux system, in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL, or with the
- Debian GNU/Linux bc source package as the file COPYING. If not, write to the
- Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston,
- MA 02110-1301, USA.
-
-
- Manual (dc.info) Copyright (C) 1984 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-
- Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
- manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
- preserved on all copies.
-
- Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
- manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the
- entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a
- permission notice identical to this one.
-
- Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this
- manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified
- versions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a
- translation approved by the Foundation.
-