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Re: Installing BC


On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 11:46:23AM -0500, Daniel Bron wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> of the procedures.  Anyway, I'm currently trying to install the cygwin 
> version of BC which I downloaded.  I gunzipped and detarred it, but when I 
> tried to use it I got this error message (in a windows dialog box entitled 
> "error starting program"):
> 
> A required .DLL file, C:\CYGWIN\USR\LOCAL\BIN\BC.EXE, was not found.
> 
> Along with a error in the shell reading:
> 
> BASH: /usr/local/bin/bc: Permission denied
> 
> There is a file named BC in that directory, but not BC.exe.  Because of the 
> "permission denied" message I tried chmod 777 BC, but the permissions 
> didn't change (I looked this up in the FAQ, and I now know permissions 
> can't be changed on Win 9x).  Because of the "BC.EXE not found" error, I 
> also I tried renaming bc to bc.exe, but that didn't help.  What am I doing 
> wrong?  How can I get bc to work?

 From what URL did you download bc? Sounds as if you're trying to use
 my bc from ftp.franken.de.

 I have just installed it again after a long time of abstinence and it
 did work OOTB. How did you set your $PATH variable? Does it contain
 /usr/local/bin?

 Corinna

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