On 02/05/2011 16:34, Olin Lathrop wrote:
> You do have to at least look at the comments.  The very first one is:
>
> ;   This firmware demonstrates converting a 16 bit integer to 5 digit
> ;   BCD representation.

Yes. but without understanding it I wasn't sure that the comment did not=20
perhaps apply to an earlier version.

Since it's now evident to me that the result is packed BCD, obviously=20
the comments are accurate.

Anyhow, we can all move on, nothing to see now as I now understand the=20
original code and now have a version that has only one in and one out=20
parameter and does unpacked BCD.

I was fairly sure the example code did what I wanted, more or less,=20
rather than the daft /10,000  %10,000 etc in the  JAL format library.

Dave Tweed's explanation was excellent and just what I was looking for.=20
I may spend a year or more NOT doing any PIC programming, so takes me a=20
   day or two  to get back into it.

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