CompuServe Messages

Sylvain, I'm building a string representation of a real character by character as a replacement for the real and long real conversion routines. I DL'd the routines you mentioned and tried to compile the new RTR.mod that was in there but it had compiler swithches that my version (1.10) of the compiler doesn't support. Also, string indexing appears off. Try to put a CHAR in the xth potiont of a string (array [0..n] of char) and it ends up in postion x + 1. TRUNC not only truncates, it also subtracts a little (6.6E1 truncs to 65). All these little gotchas and the fact that M2S is now under ownership of a hostile managment (to the product, not to people) mean that I'll give up until Martin's new project comes out or I get impatient and go for Lattice C. (I refuse to get Benchmark after finding out out how they played in the demise of M2S… good business manuever, but I think it shows that the customers of M2S – the "barely 300" of us – were way down on Benchmarks list of priorities in the take-over. So I put them low on my list of companies I'll support with my dough…) wmc