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From: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Need BCD routines for TP4.0/TP5.0/TP5.5
Keywords: TP4 TP5 TP55 BCD
Message-ID: <819@chyde.uwasa.fi>
Date: 2 Oct 89 20:53:35 GMT
References: <89273.161831TRM900@PSUVM.BITNET> <89273.185750TBC101@PSUVM.BITNET> <19038@ut-emx.UUCP> <413@s5.Morgan.COM> <234@vsserv.scri.fsu.edu>
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Organization: U of Vaasa, Finland
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In article <234@vsserv.scri.fsu.edu> schrader@loligo.UUCP (David Schrader) writes:
>a READ it returns the values in BCD and on a WRITE is requires that they be
>passed BCD values.

>I have looked, in vain, for that information in the TurboPascal 4.0, 5.0,
>and 5.5 manuals and examples. They indicate that BCD support was phased out
>after TP 3.0. The documentation and the examples are some what confusing and

Haven't tried them, but Turbo Professional 5.0 seems to have BCD
arithmetics for Turbo Pascal 4.0 and 5.0. 

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