Posted: Sat  Jan  3, 1987   4:55 AM PST              Msg: IGIH-2513-1614
From:   CHHU
To:     CHHU
Subj:   Romlot <-[12]
We have COME ACROSS a 5352 byte 71 LEX file called CHHULEX which
Nigel Davies has been exploring while on vacation, and he's phoned
to say (1) that the parameter of FROUND, which specifies the places
to the right of the radix to be rounded to, should be extended to
allow that a NEGATIVE parameter specifies rounding to the LEFT of
the radix, i.e. to the nearest ten, nearest hundred, nearest thousand,
etc., and (2) that the PEEK keyword screws up in the alphabetics of
parsing and so MUST be re-spelled.  He suggests DPEEK, for "Decimal
PEEK", but I suggest PIQUE, because (I've said it before, and I'll
say it again) there are at least 7 CHHUers in Sydney and Melbourne
who would not only be benefitted by getting included in on this ROM
process, but who would BENEFIT THE ROM.  As we got the CHHULEX file by
PURE ACCIDENT, and not in any ORGANISED way through which those locals
could join in the ROM development (and most else going on), I thought
twice about reporting the above, and I still don't see why when clever
USAers want to join in this all this stuff, in return for their subs,
then it's where it's at man, but when clever Australians (or whoever)
want the same(ish), for their subs, (plus: they're used to picking up
all the considerable extra tab for distance from US), it's communism.
I haven't loaded CHHULEX yet, as I've so far spent my whole vacation
turning incompetent commercial HP-41 code into CMT-10 EPROM modules
to get the bikkie$ to pay for this call - now THAT'S communism.
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