Re: visual block calculator

2006-10-16 Thread Luis A. Florit
* El 15/10/06 a las 17:46, A.J.Mechelynck chamullaba: > Luis A. Florit wrote: > [...] > > I called it MyCalcPresition because users can > > use the function without any knowledge of bc. > > The name is self-explanatory. > [...] > > In that case, please call it "MyCalcPrecision". > Bad spelling is

Re: visual block calculator

2006-10-15 Thread Bill McCarthy
On Sun 15-Oct-06 8:40am -0600, Luis A. Florit wrote: > * El 14/10/06 a las 21:48, Bill McCarthy chamullaba: > >> Thanks for your work on this block calculator. As is, it >> will not work for Windows shells (cmd and 4nt). > > Oops, sorry for this. > It more than possible. > I don't have/use/think/n

Re: visual block calculator

2006-10-15 Thread A.J.Mechelynck
Luis A. Florit wrote: [...] I called it MyCalcPresition because users can use the function without any knowledge of bc. The name is self-explanatory. [...] In that case, please call it "MyCalcPrecision". Bad spelling is never good advertising. Best regards, Tony.

Re: visual block calculator

2006-10-15 Thread Luis A. Florit
Hi Bill, * El 14/10/06 a las 21:48, Bill McCarthy chamullaba: > Thanks for your work on this block calculator. As is, it > will not work for Windows shells (cmd and 4nt). Oops, sorry for this. It more than possible. I don't have/use/think/need Windows, so I keep forgetting it even exists. > BC

Re: visual block calculator

2006-10-14 Thread Bill McCarthy
Thanks for your work on this block calculator. As is, it will not work for Windows shells (cmd and 4nt). BC uses '^' to raise a number to an integer power. That's the escape character for both Windows shells. So to compute 2^10, you would write for 4nt: MyCalc 2^^10 For cmd, and I'll let

Re: visual block calculator

2006-10-12 Thread Luis A. Florit
* El 11/10/06 a las 17:18, Benji Fisher chamullaba: > On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 02:30:37PM -0300, Luis A. Florit wrote: > > Pals: I want to evaluate a block selection with formulas to its value. > > So, if you have 2 lines like: > > > > home roof 89.4 + 76 home roof > > home roof 17 + 13.3 home roof

Re: visual block calculator

2006-10-11 Thread Benji Fisher
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 02:30:37PM -0300, Luis A. Florit wrote: > Pals: I want to evaluate a block selection with formulas to its value. > So, if you have 2 lines like: > > home roof 89.4 + 76 home roof > home roof 17 + 13.3 home roof > > I would like to replace "89.4 + 76" by 165.4 and "17 + 13.

visual block calculator

2006-09-28 Thread Luis A. Florit
Pals: I want to evaluate a block selection with formulas to its value. So, if you have 2 lines like: home roof 89.4 + 76 home roof home roof 17 + 13.3 home roof I would like to replace "89.4 + 76" by 165.4 and "17 + 13.3" by 30.3 by selecting the block with the formulas and applying some command