Re: Date words

At 11:19 AM 10/20/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>I hate to bother you with such an elementary question but I am
>unable to get the simple example : HIRED - that appears on page 77
>of the Reference Manual to work. Am I missing something?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Carl

You're right, there's a mistake. The line:
    PAD 10 NUMBER
should be:
    PAD SWAP NUMBER
...to use the actual count returned by ACCEPT. Otherwise, ACCEPT's count
is left on the stack and confuses things.

Sorry,
Elizabeth

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