[Coco] BASIC09 - unsigned INTEGERs?

[Robert Gault]

Allen Huffman wrote:
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> Neat! I tried LAND() early on to un-do the negative, but that didn’t work for getting it in to a REAL.
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> Actually, I didn’t think it needed to be that complex. When I was Googling on how to use SYSCALL, I came across a page on my CoCopedia site someone put there. It was the SYSCALL source code from OS-9 L1 and embedded in the comments was an example of how to use it (missing one crucial line!) specifically on getting the size. In it, the just
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> PRINT USING “‘filesize =‘,H2,H4”, regs.X, regs.Y
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> ….or something very similar to that. Printing as HEX will show $FF00 as $FF00, though decimal shows it as a negative value.
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You don't need to go quite that far to just print the result. If you want to do 
32-bit math you might need to separate the four bytes.
As suggested by others, conversion of the hex words to reals might get around 
the negative integers.

Robert