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Subject: Re: Re[2]: what is wrong with this?
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>>         bittmp = tmp & 0xCF;
>
>hm, this is not true,
>0xCF = 11001111 in binary,
>i don't see how this could reset bit 6...

Oops. Someone made a boo-boo. That should definitely have been 0xDF.

If you're gonna do a lot of bit manipulation, you ought to learn the
relationship between binary and hex and the bitwise operators & and | in
detail, if you haven't already.

(I knew hex, decimal, and binary at age 9, thanks to my Commodore 64 :-))

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