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From: kirste@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de (Burkhard Kirste)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: TC++: "floating point formats not linked"
Message-ID: <LT5NQEC@methan.chemie.fu-berlin.de>
Date: 13 Feb 91 09:56:24 GMT
References: <1991Feb9.193059.14322@ucselx.sdsu.edu>
Organization: Free University of Berlin, Organic Chemistry
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>In TC++, running in "C" mode , the following code gives the error message:
>"scanf: floating point formats not linked"
>How do I link them?   (fp is a pointer to an open text file)
>                         
>                        float *w
>                        fscanf(fp,"%f\n",w);
>
>tom weston

I have found that a statement such as
               atof("");

would help. Anyway, I think that this "feature" of TC is a nuisance.
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