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From: JMEYERS@MTUS5.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Progamming Flags
Message-ID: <91124.120412JMEYERS@MTUS5.BITNET>
Date: 4 May 91 17:04:12 GMT
References: <9105021444.AA14927@enuxha.eas.asu.edu> <15533@life.ai.mit.edu>
Organization: Computing Technology Services, Michigan Technological Univ.
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In article <15533@life.ai.mit.edu>, bson@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Jan Brittenson)
says:
>
>In a posting of [2 May 91 14:44:20 GMT]
>   salvato@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Vincent H. Salvato) writes:
>
> > I want to write a program that if symbolic is on it automaticaly turns
> > it off and says "SYM OFF" and in turn if symbolic is already off I
> > want it to turn it on and say "SYM ON".
>
>One possible solution (67.5 bytes):
>
>        << "SYM O" 1 FS?C "FF" << 1 SF "N" >> IFTE + 1 DISP 1 FREEZE >>
>
>
>Of course, if you compromise your demands, it can be reduced:
>
>        << 1 FS?C "NUM" << 1 SF "SYM" >> IFTE 1 DISP 1 FREEZE >>
>
>The latter will say "NUM" or "SYM". It's 61 bytes.
>
>                                                -- Jan Brittenson
>                                                   bson@ai.mit.edu

The problem with these programs is that they test the wrong flag.  You
want to test flag -3.  1 is a user flag (ie it does nothing).  Flag
-3 determines the status of symbolic vs. numerica results.
Sincerely,
Jason P. Meyers

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