A86: Re: Displaying numbers

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Subject: A86: Re: Displaying numbers
From: "Stephen Horne" <HorneS@rpi.edu>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 17:37:18 -0500
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Put A into HL and call UNPACK_HL, which will pull each digit off HL and put
it into A. repeat until HL=0.
There may be an easier way, but that's the way I know how to do it.


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>This may sound stupid, but how do I display numbers? As a simple
>excercise, I tried to make a counting program. It was to count from 1 to
>100. Instead of numbers, I got characters. It did count, but the output
>was not numbers. I used 'call _putc' to display the output. I don't have
>the original source anymore, as the program has evolved into something
>completly different. Any ideas?
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>--
>As he atempted to say, "Do you both love pork," In his mangled English,
>it came out, "Do you both have sex with pigs."
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