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From: chrise@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE (Chris Eich)
Subject: Re: SC 6.21 cell format
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Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1993 19:00:31 GMT
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    With SC 6.21 on BSD 4.2, a cell format with a trailing literal character,
    a character preceded by a backslash, the value displayed will be rounded
    down unnecessarily in some cases.

Here is a patch, which I'm also mailing to Jeff Buhrt via
uunet!nstar!sawmill!prslnk!buhrt (taken from the README file)

Chris

*** format.c.orig	Wed Jan 13 13:24:50 1993
--- format.c	Tue Feb  2 10:54:43 1993
***************
*** 245,250
    width = 0;
    if (decimal)
    {
      *decimal++ = EOS;
      for (cp = decimal; *cp != EOS; cp++)
      {

--- 245,251 -----
    width = 0;
    if (decimal)
    {
+     int backslashes = 0;
      *decimal++ = EOS;
      for (cp = decimal; *cp != EOS; cp++)
      {
***************
*** 252,257
        {
          case '\\':
            cp++;
  	  break;
  
          case '#':

--- 253,259 -----
        {
          case '\\':
            cp++;
+ 	  backslashes++;
  	  break;
  
          case '#':
***************
*** 263,269
  	  break;
        }
      }
!     zero_pad = strlen(decimal) - zero_pad;
    }
    (void) sprintf(prtfmt, "%%.%dlf", width);
    (void) sprintf(mantissa, prtfmt, val);

--- 265,271 -----
  	  break;
        }
      }
!     zero_pad = strlen(decimal) - backslashes - zero_pad;
    }
    (void) sprintf(prtfmt, "%%.%dlf", width);
    (void) sprintf(mantissa, prtfmt, val);