Make a simple command-line calculator with 4DOS

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From: JR VanMechelen
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1991 03:44

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While it's not bc, I just realized that you can make a quick and dirty
commmand-line calculator using 4dos with the following alias:

	alias bc=`echo %@eval[%&]%`

To use:  
	c:\> bc 3 + 4 + 5
        12
	c:\> _ 

Anybody have any really clever aliases?

JR

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