Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 03:24:52 -0400 (AST)
From: Bill Davidson <bdavidson AT ra DOT isisnet DOT com>
Sender: Bill Davidson <bdavidson AT ra DOT isisnet DOT com>
Reply-To: Bill Davidson <bdavidson AT ra DOT isisnet DOT com>
Subject: Re: dodging the INF-amous NaN-nygoat
To: "Donald E. DeMuth" <DEMUTH AT nosc DOT mil>
Cc: "A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>, demuth AT nosc DOT mil,
        djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

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On Fri, 24 Feb 1995, Donald E. DeMuth wrote:

> I couldn't find "CTRL87.C" in my files or in the yaseppochi-gumi archives.  
> Could it have been posted on another mailing list? 

No, I got it from this list, and it was just a few (>2?) weeks ago.  
There was a thread about being able to use and print out NaN and Inf 
values without an exception occurring (damn, I always mis-spell that 
word!) and a fellow from Hungary posted the program in question.  It was 
encoded via arj, and it took me a day or so to find arj.exe and decode 
it.  Anyway, I am including it here encoded via pkzip; if that is not OK,
let me know and I will get you the source one way or another.
It is a simple program (one of those "why didn't I think of that??" 
programs) and it is particularly interesting in what it tells us about 
the way go32 initializes the '87.
There were some pascal files included with the original distribution, but 
I deleted them because I don't speak pasal.  I apologize to the author, 
but I never thought I would be re-distributing this stuff.
Included file(s) attached (I hope this works!)


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