Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] In search of a certain program...

On 10/13 09:47, Mick wrote:
> On Friday, 13 October 2017 10:37:30 BST Mick wrote:
> > On Friday, 13 October 2017 04:20:19 BST tuxic@××××××.de wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > in a video I saw someone using a neat little commandline tool (no gui)
> > > called 'qcalc', with which he performs some interesting calculations.
> > >
> > > I searched the web for it and found this link
> > > https://state-machine.com/qtools/qcalc.html#qcalc_linux
> > > but it is another type of calculator and it has a gui.
> > >
> > > Does someone knows of this commandline tool and what
> > > package/archive/... it is contained in?
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot for any help in advance!
> > > Cheers
> > > Meino
> >
> > Have a look at GNU bc.
> >
> > $ bc
> > bc 1.06.95
> > Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2006 Free Software Foundation,
> > Inc.
> > This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> > For details type `warranty'.
> > 3+5
> > 8
> > sqrt(16)
> > 4
> > quit
> > $
> >
> > man bc shows the capabilities of this calculator which significantly exceed
> > mine and reminds me why I should have paid more attention at school.  :-p
>
> Oops!  I realised I did not answer your question!
>
> From what I know Qalc (no 'c' after 'q') used to be the CLI version of the
> application called Qalculate, but I have not used it:
>
> https://qalculate.github.io/
>
> --
> Regards,
> Mick

Hi all,

thanks for all the input! :)

I am searching for a program called qcalc. I know bc and several
others but -- sorry -- this time it has to be qcalc.

Does someone knows about this specific program?

Cheers
Meino