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1.1       root        1: .pa 1
                      2: .he 'ATOF (III)'1/15/73'ATOF (III)'
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                      4: NAME           atof -- ascii to floating
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                      7: SYNOPSIS       jsr     r5,atof; subr
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                     10: DESCRIPTION    atof____
                     11: will convert an ascii stream to a floating
                     12: number returned in fr0.
                     13: 
                     14: The subroutine subr____
                     15: (supplied by the caller)
                     16: is called on r5 for each character of the
                     17: ascii stream.
                     18: subr____ should return the character in r0.
                     19: The first character not used in the conversion
                     20: is left in r0.
                     21: .sp
                     22: The only numbers recognized are:  an optional minus
                     23: sign followed by a string of digits optionally containing
                     24: one decimal point, then followed optionally by the
                     25: letter "e" followed by a signed integer.
                     26: .sp
                     27: The subroutine subr____ must not disturb any registers.
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                     30: FILES          kept in /lib/liba.a
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                     33: SEE ALSO       Calls atoi (III)
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                     36: DIAGNOSTICS    There are none; overflow results in a very large
                     37: number and garbage characters terminate the scan.
                     38: .sp
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                     40: BUGS           The
                     41: routine should accept initial "+", initial blanks, and "E" for "e".
                     42: 
                     43: Overflow should be signalled with the carry bit.

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