Subject: bin/2081: 'dc' won't let me be insulting
To: None <gnats-bugs@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@sun-lamp.pc.cs.cmu.edu>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 02/15/1996 20:48:13
>Number: 2081
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: dc is incompatible with 'traditional' dc.
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: low
>Responsible: bin-bug-people (Utility Bug People)
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Thu Feb 15 21:20:01 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Chris G. Demetriou
>Organization:
Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
>Release: NetBSD-current as of Feb. 15, 1996.
>Environment:
System: NetBSD sun-lamp.pc.cs.cmu.edu 1.1A NetBSD 1.1A (SUN_LAMP) #34: Thu Jan 18 20:53:30 EST 1996 cgd@sun-lamp.pc.cs.cmu.edu:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/SUN_LAMP i386
>Description:
'dc' doesn't behave identically to 'traditional' dc for a simple,
insulting set of commands.
>How-To-Repeat:
Try:
echo '[q]sa[ln0=aln256%Pln256/snlbx]sb3135071790101768542287578439snlbxq'|dc
with NetBSD's dc, and on a 'traditional' dc, e.g. the one in Digital
UNIX.
>Fix:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: