This is Debian GNU/Linux's prepackaged version of the FSF's GNU bc and dc
utilities. GNU bc is an interactive algebraic language with arbitrary
precision. GNU dc is a reverse-polish desk calculator which supports
unlimited precision arithmetic. bc was written by Phil Nelson, Ken Pizzini
wrote dc.

bc was previously maintained by Bill Mitchell, Austin Donnelly and James
Troup. The current package was put together Dirk Eddelbuettel
<edd@debian.org> from the GNU sources from 
	ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/pub/gnu/bc-1.05a.tar.gz.  
Changes are documented in the changelog.Debian file, and below. 

James Troup, the previous maintainer made the following changes :- 

o adding support for the Debian package maintenance scheme, by adding
  various debian/* files.  
o bc/scan.l (rc_len): define as int not char, to allow input > 128
  characters in length without crashing.
o configure.in: changed test for readline to use READLINELIB and not
  LIBS so we can link just bc with readline (as dc doesn't use it).
o bc/Makefile.am (LDADD): add @READLINELIB@


Program Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997 Free Software
Foundation, Inc.  
Modifications for Debian Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 1999 James Troup.
Further modifications for Debian Copyright (C) 1999 Dirk Eddelbuettel.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License with your
Debian GNU/Linux system, in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL, or with the
Debian GNU/Linux bc source package as the file COPYING.  If not, write to the
Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
02111-1307, USA.

Manual (dc.info) Copyright (C) 1984 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

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