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From: ebergman@isis.cs.du.edu (Eric Bergman-Terrell)
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Subject: Re: HELP with Windows questions
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I'll try to answer question #1 - since wsprintf doesn't do floating point,
use the sprintf that came with your compiler - unless you have BC++ 2.0
which has a bug in sprintf for floating point numbers.

If you have BC++ 2.0 consider writing your own floating point to ascii
conversion (that's what I had to do).

Note this is not a flame - if that's the only serious problem with BC++ 2.0
I'll still be happy.  The bug shows up as follows:

sprintf(str, "%f", (float) 24 / 27);

which places "1.0" into str rather than "0.88888".

Please don't call Borland - I already called it in.  I have a floating
point to ascii conversion routine which I'll post under coercion...


Terrell