Seeking SideKick-/spreadsheet-type functionality for AT&T 3B2

Brian Beattie beattie at visenix.UUCP
Wed Oct 31 02:20:59 AEST 1990


In article <4254 at lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard at thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
-In article <E6R6K6C at xds13.ferranti.com> peter at ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
->have "bc" shipped with UNIX?
-
-bc is much less user-friendly than, say, an HP-16C...or the rpn program
-that emulates it (albeit incompletely) for Unix. I have to wrestle bc to
-get an answer out of it, but I can get answers out of a 16C without having
-to think about it...kinda like WordStar.

Then just try "dc"

Myself I could never get my head around rpn.
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