From: assemblywizard@gmail.com   
      
   ... forget it... this is hopeless!   
      
   John   
      
   "Björn Felten"  wrote in message   
   news:yzPle.25730$d5.175672@newsb.telia.net...   
   >> 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...?   
   > :-(   
      
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