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From: kupermaj@tardis.union.edu (Joshua Kuperman)
Subject: Anyone have a workaround for ~b
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Date: Sun, 6 Nov 1994 18:52:29 GMT
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I need to be able to format binary numbers as fixed length character
strings.  CLtL2 gives (format nil "~5,'0b" 5) as returning "00101". But
xlisp only supports the decimal and floating point format directives.
Has anybody added support for the binary, (octal or hex would also help)
format directive or devised a work around.
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Josh Kuperman                  
kupermaj@tardis.union.edu      


