From: abuse@telia.com   
      
   > That is NOT reading a string of digits and a decimal point (a REAL number),   
   > it reads a SINGLE digit--that my friend--is an INTEGER!   
      
       So, I do the homework for you, correcting all the mistakes that you   
   made in your code, and then you don't even bother to test it?   
      
       Yes, it reads an *extended* real number and prints it properly. It   
   does *not* read a single digit unless you press enter after you've   
   entered a single digit.   
      
       I've been programming in Turbo, and later Borland, Pascal since the   
   first version came in the mid 1980s, and I've made a good living out of   
   it too. I can almost do simple things like this in my sleep, so don't   
   come here telling me my code doesn't work! Geezzz man, what's your   
   problem...? :-(   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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