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From: zhou@brazil.psych.purdue.edu (Albert Zhou)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: bit problem
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Date: 19 Nov 90 20:17:51 GMT
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I don't know what kind of Pascal you are talking about. In general, if you
could make "AND" operation on your version of Pascal, you might easily 
access individual bit. For example if you want to access the third bit of
a byte-size variable x, you could do it by evaluating:
             x AND 00000100