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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: conversion between hex and dec
Message-ID: <7765@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 25 Jun 89 22:09:24 GMT
References: <1300@osupyr.mps.ohio-state.edu> <354@mountn.dec.com>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <354@mountn.dec.com> minow%thundr.dec@decwrl.dec.com (Martin Minow)
writes:
>
>Paul Nevai asks for conversion routines between decimal and hex.  Here's
>a subroutine to convert from hex to ascii.  Conversion from strings to
>hex is about as simple.

I appreciate your providing this subroutine to the net, but for the
Mac, you should have stuck on a disclaimer warning about its
non-international nature.  Unfortunately, there's no international
hexadecimal trap built in to the Mac, so developer utilities that need
hex are intrinsically less internationalizable than most other
software.  The moral is to only use hex where you can't avoid it (e.g.,
ResEdit, Fedit).  If you do have to use hex, it might be worth your
while to put the hex routines in a separable code resource so people
using some other languages won't have to recompile the whole thing.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com
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