Subj : "On the Fly" Hex-numb conversion ... ???
To   : Charles Dye
From : Gerald Miller
Date : Sun Feb 10 2002 08:33 pm

From: Gerald.Miller@f512.n342.z1.cereal.mv.com (Gerald Miller)
Subject: "On the Fly" Hex-numb conversion ... ???

Hello Charles,

  Sunday February 10 2002 19:23, Charles Dye wrote to me:

 CD> From: raster@highfiber.com (Charles Dye)

 >> CD> Looks like that feature is new in v7.  Sorry for the
 >> CD> confusion.
 >>
 >> Thank you for the information.  I suppose the confusion could
 >> have been minimized if I had used 4Help....  ???

 CD> If I had used 4HELP, rather.  Naturally *your* help file
 CD> won't cover new features in more recent versions!

If I had (originally) used 4Help, I would NOT have found it and
then could have presumed it to be a version 7.0x feature.  :))

 >> Since I have your attention, I thought that I might ask if you
 >> have a Perpetual Calendar written in the 4DOS format (BTM file)
 >> that would work with version 6.02B?
 >>
 >> I have a hard copy that lists fourteen different calendar years,
 >> with an index.  The index lists years from 1800 to 2050 and each
 >> year points to a number (corresponding to one of the fourteen
 >> calendar years).

 CD> Everybody should write a perpetual calendar; it's a great programming
 CD> exercise.  Mine is 900 bytes long and covers the years 1753 through
 CD> 2399.  Unfortunately it's assembly language, not a .BTM, so probably
 CD> not useful to you.  Made it before I got seriously into 4DOS.
 CD> Sorry....

Only 900 bytes?  Made in assembly language before you got
seriously into 4DOS?  While the assembly program is probalby not
useful to me, it's certainly nothing to be sorry about...

           Thanks ... Gerald
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