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From: Ordania-DM@cup.portal.com (Charles K Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: DIRT - a new DIR command
Message-ID: <36045@cup.portal.com>
Date: 18 Nov 90 07:44:56 GMT
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  Okay all you masterminds out there...I need a FAST, SMALL routine that
converts a 3 byte binary number, into its 8byte ASCII equivalent.

  I have a routine in DIRT.M65 that does this, but it is pretty slow (and
pretty fast too compared to some of the ones I've seen).  Feel free to take 
a look at it.

  Anyway, the routine has to convert a 3 byte binary number to its 8 byte 
ATASCII equivalent.  That is it.  No other requirements.  You don't have to 
remove leading zeroes, you don't have to right or left justify the number. 
Just give me a routine that goes from 3 bytes binary to 8 bytes ATASCII.
  Think you can do it?  I checked about 8 different books, including a few 
non-6502 ones and they *ALL* did it in the exact same way unless the CPU
had a built in divide instruction.
  So, everyone, show me what a quack programmer I am and write me a faster
routine.  I'll even give you a whole 256 bytes to write it in (generous, 
aren't I? :).

  No cheating now...supercomputers are not allowed to compete.  What will you
win for your super-duper amazing binary->ascii converter?  Hey, honorable 
mention in the documentation of DIRT.

Thanks in advance
Charles Hughes

send mail to: Charles_K_Hughes@cup.portal.com