JB> // convert the bcd to to ascii

JB>   sprintf(buf,"%x",bcd);   // not portable - but something

That's good, except each of the numbers in the byte had different 
applications in the metering system with which I was working.

Also you would then have to run the resulting string (buf) through a 
_really_ non-portable function, like atoi().

To make things more interesting, integer values were little endian but 
were only 12 bits long.  The 13th bit was the start of the next number.  
That way every 3 bytes held 2 integer values.

þ CMPQwk 1.42 999

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