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From: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Script Manager compatible atof()?
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Date: 8 Aug 89 21:24:07 GMT
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In article <14919@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton) writes:
>
>     I have a program which solicits floating point values from the
>user...
>recently, and it seems that it would be really neat to be able to use
>it to parse any locally-valid floating point representation.  It does
>seem to be a rather complicated package, however, with about the same
>degree of complexity as the Macintosh File Manager, and I scarcely
>would know where to start if I wanted to use it for my rather simple
>requirements.

Earle, I know exactly what you mean.  I'm doing the same thing and
looked at the Script Manager 2.0 documentation and threw in the
towel and did it by hand....


Ken



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