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king@rtsg.mot.com publicly declared:
>Does anyone know of an X-Windows calculator that does hexadecimal?  Now,
>nothing beats my handy HP-16C at my side, but there are times when I'm
>without it and I need to do a few quick calculations.
>
>We're running X11R4 here (on top of SunOS 4.0.3), so forgive me if this
>is included in the R5 distribution.

Thanks for the many email replies!  Out of 7 (and counting) replies
there have been two suggestions:

  1) Use the OpenWindows/Xview 'calctool'.  This will run under normal
     X-Windows if you set the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to
     the OpenWindows lib directory.  On our system this is 
     /usr/local/openwin/lib, your mileage may vary.

  2) Use the program called 'hexcalc', available at many fine FTP
     sites.

The first one works for me.  Although it's somewhat OpenLook-ish (a GUI
which I personally find ugly as sin) calctool is pretty solid and has a
lot of nice features.  If only it did RPN...  Actually, they didn't go
overboard on the OpenLook style so I don't really mind it too much.

I don't have experience with hexcalc.  We don't have access to FTP here
(silly, ineffective security policies!) so I've had to request it via
ftpmail.  I'll see what it's like if my request is ever actually filled.

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