this must be a common problem, but repeated searching is not finding an answer

[Clayton Cramer]

Cygwin Setup - Select Packages says there are no packages to install or 
update.  No is there a bc executable under \cygwin

On 3/19/2022 12:23 PM, Eliot Moss wrote:
>
> bc is available in Cygwin.
>
> Note that Cygwin is not a single thing, but a library that provides a 
> pretty
> faithful mapping from POSIX library calls to Windows ones, PLUS a 
> large number
> of packages, individually installable (modulo their dependencies on one
> another), of Posix compatible tools recompiled for Cygwin (often with 
> patches
> to make them compile properly under Cygwin).
>
> bc is (logically enough) in the bc package.
>
> Regards - Eliot Moss

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