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Subject: Floating Point
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Date: 19 Jan 90 23:18:58 GMT
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 Date: 01-17-90 (13:10)              Number: 1714 (Echo)
   To: ALL                           Refer#: NONE
 From: MARK DOWDEY                     Read: (N/A)
 Subj: VP FLOATING PT OUTPUT         Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

 I am currently using VP software floating point (ver 1.01) with F-PC 3.5
 and I need formatted output (similar to D.R) to display results.  The
 output words available seem to be limited to F. and E.  
 F. works, but the output is of variable length.  E. is of fixed length,
 but it hangs my system when I print a zero!  ( " 0e0  e. " will crash.)
 Also, I would prefer not to display in exponential format.  ( 3.005 is
 preferable to 3.500E+00 )  Has anyone out there already invented this
 particular wheel?

 Thanks in advance,
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