topic Re: Calcalator program in Operating System - OpenVMS

Calcalator program

Jack Trachtman — Thu, 22 May 2003 22:28:47 GMT

I've always been disappointed that VMS doesn't include a calculator program - even a four-function floating-point calculator would be very useful for DCL scripts.

What are other people using for simple FP calculations?

Re: Calcalator program

Martin P.J. Zinser — Fri, 23 May 2003 14:23:09 GMT

Hello,

http://www.decus.de:8080/www/vms/sw/icalc.htmlx

result can be found in symbol icalc_out

Greetings, Martin

Re: Calcalator program

Hein van den Heuvel — Sat, 24 May 2003 14:32:51 GMT

In pure DCL, when there appears to be a need for floating point calculations, then I tend to normalize down to a minimal base unit and work with that untill the final printout. So I'd do all the calculation in cents, or seconds, or percents, or bytes, or milliseconds, whatever was appropriate.

Check out the lexical function F$FAO or pretty printing.

Recently I find it more productive to just use PERL whenever/whereever I can.

hth,
Hein.

Re: Calcalator program

Guy Peleg — Mon, 26 May 2003 04:09:09 GMT

Hello Jack,

Just wanted to let you know that 64 bit calculation and floating point support
in DCL is something we are currently investigating. It might show up in one of the
next versions of the O/S.

Guy Peleg
OpenVMS DCL Engineerng

Re: Calcalator program

Warren Sander — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 14:26:55 GMT

What about sys$system:decw$calc.exe?

Re: Calcalator program

ShyGuy — Tue, 10 Jun 2003 17:29:39 GMT

|Just wanted to let you know that 64 bit calculation and floating point support
|in DCL is something we are currently investigating.
|It might show up in one of the
next versions of the O/S.

|Guy Peleg
|OpenVMS DCL Engineerng

That sounds really nice Guy! What have you planned regarding additional control structures, such as loops?

/ShyGuy