Annotation of researchv10dc/dist/man/v3/man3/ftoa.3, revision 1.1.1.1

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                      2: .he 'FTOA (III)'1/15/73'FTOA (III)'
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                      4: NAME           ftoa -- floating to ascii conversion
                      5: .sp
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                      7: SYNOPSIS       jsr     r5,ftoa; subr
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                     10: DESCRIPTION    ftoa____
                     11: will convert the floating point number in fr0
                     12: into ascii in the form
                     13: 
                     14:    [-]ddddd.dd*
                     15: 
                     16: if possible, otherwise in the form
                     17: 
                     18:    [-]d.dddddddde_[-]dd*.
                     19: .sp
                     20: For each character generated by ftoa,
                     21: the subroutine subr____ (supplied by the caller) is called on
                     22: register r5 with the character in r0.
                     23: .sp
                     24: The number of digits can be changed by changing the value
                     25: of "_ndigits" in ecvt (default is 10.).
                     26: .sp
                     27: The subroutine subr____ must not disturb any registers.
                     28: .sp
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                     30: FILES          kept in /lib/liba.a
                     31: .sp
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                     33: SEE ALSO       ecvt(III), itoa(III)
                     34: .sp
                     35: .ti 0
                     36: DIAGNOSTICS    --
                     37: .sp
                     38: .ti 0
                     39: BUGS           --

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