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From: Scot.Kamins@f555.n125.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Scot Kamins)
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Subject: re: Can there be such things as simple XCMD/XFCNs?
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Date: 28 Sep 88 16:19:53 GMT
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Best book on the subject of XCMDs is Gary Bond's XCMD's For HyperCard (MIS Press).
As to the strange rounding, HyperTalk calls the Apple SANE math routines in the ROM: that's the source of the strangeness.


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