[Lvlug] Linux Temperature revisited...

[Linc Fessenden]

On Sat, 11 May 2002, Mark wrote:

> The initial problem I had was that the 'date' program works on Linux but it 
> obviously did not output the same info that the script was looking for. So I 
> wrote my own date conversion program in C and I use that in the same spot of 
> your script to give it what it wants. The second problem that I got stuck on 
> was 'bc'. I was really surprised that Linux doesn't have something like that 
> because I seem to remember reading about doing math at the command line. But, 
> then again, maybe I didn't install it because I thought I wouldn't need it. 
> So I again turned to some C code and do the math in a little program. 
> 
>   tput is available on the Slack 8 distro I am using but the params are just 
> a little different.
> 
> After all that I am able to build the graphs from the templog file. I am now 
> working on writing the whole thing in C and calling ploticus to do the work. 
> Don't know if I will get too far. It is just a small diversion and I have way 
> too many projects already.

Awsome!  By the way,
sh-2.05$ echo 4*5 | bc
20
sh-2.05$ uname -a
Linux home 2.4.5 #1 Sun Mar 3 04:20:56 EST 2002 i686 unknown
sh-2.05$

bc works just fine on my slack 8 box as evidenced above..  What probs were
you having with it?  Also, congrats on finding all the changes!  I didn't
think anyone would get them all..  Then again, you may have been the only
one who even tried!

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-Linc Fessenden

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