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> On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Larry Wright wrote:
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> > Looks like Mike Mart was right in noting that the strange ES price was
> > 2^17-1 (max # for 17 bits). DBC admitted the price was above their
> > "network data limit", and has a "fix" for it, namely dropping the last
> > zero in the transmission.
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> This would be OK for the SP but not the ES, which can end in 5.
well, ending of 00 will be 0
25 will be 2 (looks like 20 as in SP)
50 will be 5 - fine
75 will be 7 (looks like 70 as in SP)
I COULD live with that - however do we have to cope with that CRAP ? - looks as
the same people have worked before on the CUBS tops machines which failed
each other day........
> Not sure
> this will work for the ES. I would think DBC will have to find another
> solution, at least for the ES.
DBC is a joke !
rgds hans
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