bc - An arbitrary precision numeric processing language HOWTO

ChangeLog


Sep 16, 2005	- Rearranged options to shut up new version of find
		- Run chown -R root:root on source when $UID = 0
		- Updated Slackware note for older versions and 10.2
May 10, 2005	- Removed make, gcc, binutils, and fileutils/coreutils links
		- Added note about versions that come with Slackware
		- Changed download URL from ftp to http
		- Changed md5sum verification to output OK (or not)
		- Added link to ibiblio for an alternate download URL
Oct 20, 2004	- Added " or coreutils" to the fileutils prerequiste
		- Replaced the md5sum -> textutils link with a link to
		  coreutils
Sep 25, 2003	- Replaced using the Slack readline patch with my own
		  that includes that fix and one for flex too
		- Added prerequisites
		- Instead of running strip then 'make install' later, now we
		  just run 'make install-strip'
Aug 19, 2003	- Moved md5sum into the howto itself, removed downloading
		  sha1sums file from ftp.gnu.org, gpg verifying that, etc...
		- Create ~/installed with mode 700
Apr 14, 2003	- First entry

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