Hello Miles.

15 Sep 04 05:17, you wrote to me:

 MM> G'morning Jasen,

 JB>> basically that first step is what's important. and the 9999
 JB>> trick I remember from form 2 math class where they told us
 JB>> how to turn decimals into fractions... which which it's
 JB>> possible to tunr the decimal representation of any rational
 JB>> number back into a fraction.

 MM> And a very good Form 2 maths teacher....

 JB>> It's the linux default command-line shell it serves
 JB>> basically the same purpose as cmd.exe in windows

 MM> Mmmm ... except that cmd.exe needs to run qbasic.exe or somesuch
 MM> to match that ... I might have a file-hunt to see if there's owt
 MM> better for my perverted needs...

there's a preogram called 4dos that's almoist as good. and just recently
become freeware.   the windoiws version is still shareware though, and the
expiry date is well enforced, but 4dos should run ok under wiindows..

I'm pretty sure bash is avaialble for windows too.

Jasen

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