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Subject: PYGMY Forth
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Date: 18 Feb 91 02:00:26 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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Category 1,  Topic 45
Message 68        Sun Feb 17, 1991
C.CLARK21                    at 19:23 EST
 
I am working on a program for my Forth Construction course and I ran into a
problem.  It is a fairly simple program -- convert farenheit to celcius using
scaled integers instead of floating point numbers.  I understand how to do the
program except for one part.  I can't get the output format routine to work
correctly.

We are using the book _Starting_Forth_ by Leo Brodie for the course and I was
trying to use a routine similar to the one on page 111:
   : #.####   DUP  ABS  0  <# # # # #  46 HOLD # ROT SIGN #> TYPE SPACE;

I am using PYGMY v 1.2 to do it.  I already eliminated the 'TYPE' because
pygmy doesn't require it.  I can make it work with unsigned numbers by
removeing the DUP, ABS, ROT, and SIGN but cannont seem to make it work with
signed numbers.

Does anyone have any ideas?  I am really stuck (and the program is due
tomorrow!).

Thanks,  Craig

[I ported this because of general interest value, not because of the 
(now outdated) plea at the end.  -dwp]
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