On 26 Jun 2000, at 8:40, Bob Ammerman wrote:

> So, the original 'struct within a union' scheme from this thread would
> seem, IMHO, to be an excellent way of doing this.
>
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> Bob Ammerman

Of the several schemes I've seen to do this, the one you reference
seems to be the best way to do it. Lots of code to produce such a
simple result, but no other drawback. I saved that stuff somewhere
so I could study it, but now I can't remember where I stored it.
When I find it, I plan on playing with it and saving it as a
commented worked out example to include in other programs. I've
never used the Union feature of C, so I'll have to study that too (I'm
not a great C programmer, so this gives me an excuse to learn
something new about C)