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README for Urchlay's fork of hcalc
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This is a fork of hcalc with some fixes and enhancements.

Original hcalc is by DJ Delorie, and can be found here:
https://www.delorie.com/store/hcalc/
This version dates back to the late 90s, when computer monitors had
lower resolution. It uses a 125x147 window, which is pretty small and
hard to read on a modern display (particularly a 4K one). It's also
harder to click on the tiny buttons.

Sometime around 2007, Theodore Kilgore forked hcalc and made some
changes:
- Increase the application's window size by 2x (from 125x147
  to 250x294). This helps some with modern displays.
- Make the window manager's close button work.
- Change the build system from make to cmake.
- Add a copy of the GPL as COPYING, since the original version
  doesn't have it (though the site states that it's GPL).
This was released as hcalc-1.2, and can be found here:
https://github.com/jlec/hcalc/
Also, this is the version packaged by Gentoo.

In 2024, I (B. Watson, urchlay@slackware.uk) have made many further
changes. See CHANGES for the list. See the man page for full
documentation (something that was lacking in the previous releases).