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To:	"Mark H. Wilkinson" <mhw@kremvax.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: 9libs-0.3, wily, sam test distributions 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 05 Feb 1999 15:04:45 EST."
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Date:	Mon, 8 Feb 1999 19:41:49 -0500
From:	Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>

"Mark H. Wilkinson" <mhw@kremvax.demon.co.uk> writes:
| * The implementation of the Plan 9 print() routines in libplan9c is
|   incomplete (it doesn't cover floating point). I'm intending to finish
|   it soon. It does include string formatting, so you can write Unicode
|   aware command line programs and see their output in 9term.

The version of print that I submitted to comp.sources.unix a while ago
is fairly complete.  With a little help from David Gay's fp code from
netlib, it prints floating point very nicely.