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| author | Arun Prakash Jana <engineerarun@gmail.com> | 2019-12-10 23:12:42 +0530 |
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| committer | Arun Prakash Jana <engineerarun@gmail.com> | 2019-12-10 23:12:42 +0530 |
| commit | a2b9998a2fe06885b3ea66b87de187cf3e6dbfcd (patch) | |
| tree | d9baea272e5fbe9df85692d357a443a9f45a1f34 | |
| parent | edd3dce0c8768afad8a682363a91138c79f63ba7 (diff) | |
Update docs
| -rw-r--r-- | README.md | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | bcal.1 | 8 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ `bcal` (*Byte CALculator*) is a REPL CLI utility for storage expression evaluation, unit conversion and address calculation. If you can't calculate the hex address offset for (512 - 16) MiB, or the value when the 43<sup>rd</sup> bit of a 64-bit address is set mentally, `bcal` is for you. -It has a [`bc`](https://www.gnu.org/software/bc/manual/html_mono/bc.html) mode for general-purpose numerical calculations. Alternatively, it can also use [`calc`](http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/) (helps with expressions involving multiple bases). +It has a [`bc`](https://www.gnu.org/software/bc/manual/html_mono/bc.html) mode for general-purpose numerical calculations. Alternatively, it can also invoke [`calc`](http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/) which works better with expressions involving multiple bases. `bcal` follows Ubuntu's standard unit conversion and notation [policy](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnitsPolicy). Only 64-bit operating systems are supported. @@ -5,7 +5,13 @@ bcal \- Storage expression calculator. .B bcal [-c N] [-f loc] [-s bytes] [expr] [N [unit]] [-b [expr]] [-m] [-d] [-h] .SH DESCRIPTION .B bcal -(Byte CALculator) is a command-line utility to help with numerical calculations and expressions involving data storage units, addressing, base conversion etc. It invokes GNU \fBbc\fR for non-storage expressions. +(Byte CALculator) is a command-line utility to help with numerical calculations and expressions involving data storage units, addressing, base conversion etc. +.PP +It invokes GNU \fBbc\fR for non-storage expressions. Alternatively, it can also invoke \fBcalc\fR (\fIhttp://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/\fR) which works better with expressions involving multiple bases. To use \fBcalc\fR: +.PP +.EX +.B export BCAL_USE_CALC=1 +.EE .PP \fBbcal\fR follows Ubuntu's standard unit conversion and notation policy: .br |