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From: bson@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Jan Brittenson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Progamming Flags
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Date: 4 May 91 21:16:50 GMT
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In a posting of [4 May 91 17:04:12 GMT]
   JMEYERS@MTUS5.BITNET writes:

 > 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.

   Oops. I used flag 1 to test it and forgot to replace it with -3 for
the posting. Clumsy.

						-- Jan Brittenson
						   bson@ai.mit.edu