DOS ain't dead

Hello,

does somebody know
- a simple GUI for DOS version of RAR 3.93 (downloadable from the internet)? The version 2.50 even had it.
- a simple calculator for DOS?

> Hello,
>
> does somebody know
> - a simple GUI for DOS version of RAR 3.93 (downloadable from the
> internet)? The version 2.50 even had it.
> - a simple calculator for DOS?

About the calculator, you can look there:

http://reimagery.com/fsfd/calc.htm

> Hello,
>
> does somebody know
> - a simple GUI for DOS version of RAR 3.93 (downloadable from the
> internet)? The version 2.50 even had it.

I think NDN is considered a good frontend for archivers.

> - a simple calculator for DOS?

FDRC
FoxCalc
CALC387
Regina

> does somebody know
> - a simple GUI for DOS version of RAR 3.93

NO. Any point to use RAR at all?

> - a simple calculator for DOS?

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> - a simple calculator for DOS?

I've been using the command-line ACALC.EXE for ages. It's from IBM PC-DOS 7.0/2000. The updated version with a fix is available here:

ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/pcdos/fixes/v7.0/d70acalc.zip

Here's the /? help:

ACALC [/T[:]format] expression

  /T           Specifies the output format type
  format         D=Decimal (default)  B=Binary  O=Octal  X=heXadecimal
                 A=All (decimal, binary, octal, and hexadecimal)
  expression   Specifies a valid numeric expression.

Numbers prefixed with 'b', 'o', and 'x' are assumed to be binary, octal,
and hexadecimal respectively.  Decimal numbers are not prefixed.

Arithmetic Operators:              Bitwise Operators:
  ()  Separators                     &   Bitwise AND
  *   Multiplication                 :   Bitwise OR
  /   Division                       ^   Bitwise XOR
  %   Modulo (remainder of x/y)      {   Left Shift
  +   Addition                       }   Right Shift
  -   Subtraction

General Math Functions:
  ABS(x)     Absolute Value of x
  EXP(x)     Exponential of x
  FACT(x)    Factorial of x (a positive number less than 21)
  LOG(x)     Natural Logarithm of x (a positive number)
  LOG10(x)   Logarithm of x (a positive number) to the Base 10
  MAX(x;y)   Larger of the two values x and y
  MIN(x;y)   Smaller of the two values x and y
  PI()       Value of Pi (3.14159265359)
  POW(x;y)   x raised to the power of y
  SQRT(x)    Square Root of x (a positive number)

Trigonometric Math Functions:
  COS(x)     Cosine of the Angle x in Radians
  SIN(x)     Sine of the Angle x in Radians
  TAN(x)     Tangent of the Angle x in Radians

Example: ACALC FACT(((8+1)/2)*2-SQRT(MAX(6;3)))

- Doug B.

Big Thank you to everybody for the tips. At this moment the best command-line calculator for me is tcalc.
Does somebody know a calculator with GUI (like the one in WinXP)?

> Big Thank you to everybody for the tips. At this moment the best
> command-line calculator for me is tcalc.
> Does somebody know a calculator with GUI (like the one in WinXP)?


if you use a dos /freedos gui interface like desktop2 by Felix Ritter you'll have a fine & simple gui calculator ( and other) on your desktop.
http://www.mevis-research.de/~ritter/awakeideas/desktop.html

> Big Thank you to everybody for the tips. At this moment the best
> command-line calculator for me is tcalc.
> Does somebody know a calculator with GUI (like the one in WinXP)?

Didn't DV/X come with a calculator? For me DV/X always was the closest to a GUI on dos.

> > Big Thank you to everybody for the tips. At this moment the best
> > command-line calculator for me is tcalc.
> > Does somebody know a calculator with GUI (like the one in WinXP)?
>
> Didn't DV/X come with a calculator? For me DV/X always was the closest to a
> GUI on dos.

Why he wants/needs a GUI calculator is beyond me. But here's a pic of DV/X's calc (more pics from here).

Sadly, DV/X isn't sold nor even available in any form anymore (though developer libs for DJGPP v1 still exist on mirrors).

> - a simple calculator for DOS?

Bali's Calc:

http://tothb.ehc.hu/software/

Thanks a lot for your (and everybody's) tip. Balicalc is the best GUI calculator for me, so I can add it to my favorite file manager Doszip.

> > - a simple calculator for DOS?
>
> I've been using the command-line ACALC.EXE for ages. It's from IBM PC-DOS
> 7.0/2000. The updated version with a fix is available here:
>
> ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/products/pcdos/fixes/v7.0/d70acalc.zip
>

I use pcalc, the programmer's calculator. Needed it to do some logical bitwise operations. Took ages to find one that works as well as this one does. Here's the download text blurb:

PCALC

Programmer's calculator, command line utility.

There was always a loophole when it came to a need to covert between hexadecimal / decimal / octal / binary.

Especially if it involved an operation like 0x1234 + 0x20 It took a lot of hard work, and mostly a good pocket calculator.

Main features:

Full math parser, paranthases, add, sub, mult, div, exponential
Automatic conversion between HEX DEC OCT BIN numbers
Mixing different bases in one expression
Definable variables
Math constants (E PI ...)
Built in math functions (sin/cos/sqrt ...)


Download
You can download pcalc at the Sourceforge website.

> I use pcalc, the programmer's
> calculator. Needed it to do some logical bitwise operations. Took ages to
> find one that works as well as this one does. Here's the download text
> blurb:
>
> (snip)
>
> Download
> You can download pcalc at the
> Sourceforge website.

Surprisingly, pcalc-2.tar.lzma does indeed have pcalc-2/win32/pcalc.exe (as well as C sources), which is also surprisingly a MS C (circa 1992) DOS (!) .EXE.
EDIT: But it's cmdline only, no GUI (obviously?).