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From: langdon@lll-lcc.UUcp (Bruce Langdon)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari8
Subject: Re: Action and Floating Point
Message-ID: <349@lll-lcc.UUcp>
Date: Sat, 21-Jun-86 00:34:27 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 21 00:34:27 1986
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Organization: Lawrence Livermore Labs, LCC, Livermore Ca
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Summary: get OSS Action Toolkit, aka Programmer's Aid Disk

In article <190@sco.UUCP>, ericg@sco.UUCP (Eric Griswold of QA) writes:
> Is there a floating point "library"
> available for Action, that is a 
> package to allow floating point operations...

OSS sells the Action Toolkit which has FP access by creating a REAL
data TYPE, and procedures that interface to the ROM. However, each FP
operation must be a procedure call; you can't say y = a*x+b.
FP is Action's weakest area.

There is a LOT of stuff in the Toolkit, for PMG, I/O, sorting....
Even if you don't outright INCLUDE the files in your program, you may 
find them as informative as I have.
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