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From: timk@xenitec.on.ca (Tim Kuehn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Floating Point Formates
Keywords: scanf, atof, floating point
Message-ID: <1990Feb28.210122.24511@xenitec.on.ca>
Date: 28 Feb 90 21:01:22 GMT
Reply-To: timk@xenitec.UUCP (Tim Kuehn)
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Organization: TDK Consulting Services, Kitchener, ON, Canada
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I'm working on a program and am having a problem with the atof() function.
Every time I run it with a certain option  turned on I get an error: 
scanf : floating point formats not linked.

The following code sample generates the same error. I've RTFM'd and there's 
not a HINT of anything else that should be brought in in terms of declerations,
etc. 

Anybody have any ideas?

-------code sample here-------
#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <conio.h>
 
char arg[10];
main()
{
clrscr;
printf("start \n");
strcpy(arg, "-f3");
printf("%s \n", arg);
printf("%lf \n", atof(&arg[2]));
}

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