Hello Paul & PIC.ers, I was the one who initiated this hex calc. thing. Sure, I'm using windose, positively awash here with 3 flavours of it in PCs & an ole DOS 286 m/c dedicated to logic analyser work etc., et.. I even have a C/PM 8bitter tied to a very special differential-strain load cell. Looong hex wouldn't have arisen except that I have to code an instrument for 1msec resolution in timing, for a possible duration of 78 days. I'd love to say g'bye to MS windows (who under the sun *needs* umpteen different ways to call the same app. with chimes & useless bells / whistles) but my guiding light has to be Microchip & the MPLAB IDE. So, I have the MS calculator with dec. digit calcs the length of my arm but it runs out of steam if I throw hex numbers at it worth more'n a mere couple of trillion. *nix ? I'm listening. Is Microchip tuned into this wavelength too? best regards, John >Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 11:59:49 -0500 >From: Paul Hutchinson >Subject: Re: [EE]: MS windows calculator > >> What's wrong with bc (or dc)? >Cool, if someday I need to work with more than 12 Hex digits I'll do it on >one of my Linux PC's. > >But, the person who made the post that I was responding to was using >Windows. So, I assumed they were looking for a Windows solution. Don't know >if they have any *nix puters. > >Paul e-mail from the desk of John Sanderson, JS Controls. Snailmail: PO Box 1887, Boksburg 1460, Rep. of South Africa. Tel/fax: Johannesburg 893 4154 Cellphone no: 082 741 6275 email: jsand@pixie.co.za Manufacturer & purveyor of laboratory force testing apparatus, and related products and services. -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body