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[hadeelqasaimeh]

hi all

[Ttelmah]

I'm suprised it is quite as far 'out' as 1111.025, but the problem is the basic precision of floating point. There are only just under 24bits used to store the actual 'number' (as opposed to the exponent with it), and this gives just over 6 digits of basic precision.

Look in a standard 'C' book. The '\' codes, are standard. \r, is a 'carriage return'. \n, is a 'new line. \t is a tab, \f is a 'form feed'. etc..

The %x fomat in printf, means 'translate the character to _hex_. Not what you are after. You want to send the raw character in binary. Use:

putc(0x1a);

or

printf("%c",0x1a);

or

printf("\x1a"); //note no zero for this one

Best Wishes

[hadeelqasaimeh]

thank you