> Hmmm... if I received a byte value (ASCII) 65 ('A') how would I
> use  sscanf() to specify that val_1 = 6 and val_2 = 5?  I've
> never seen that  done with sscanf().  Could you also do do that
> sprintf()?

RS>  This message is a little old, but I thought the idea of 
RS> reading data that was written on a machine with a 12 bit 
RS> word architecture was just too interesting to pass by...

The architecture of the machine in question was 16-bit.  The integer 
values were limited to 12-bits (4096 max) and followed each other 
consecutively so that 2 integer values were stored in 3 bytes of memory.

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