On 19 Feb 2003, at 14:55, William Chops Westfield wrote:

> Oh come on.  It's not that hard.  It can't be that hard.  I had a swell time
> once trying to do integer math on a TI-59 programmable calculator, and that
> too is a bit annoying, but far from impossible or even "difficult."
>
>         carry = firstbyte mod 2
>         firstbyte = firstbyte / 2
>         nextbyte = nextbyte /2 + 128*carry
>
> (and "N mod D", of course is just (N - (D*int(N/D))) )

I did not say it could not be done - the original question to which I replied was:-

> Thanks. But isn't there a simple bit shift operator in VB? That would make
> it beyond simple....

And my answer remains - "Nope..."


George Smith

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