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Subject: bin/4183: 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:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jul 27 21:50:00 PDT 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Craig Leres
>Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE i386
>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
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: