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  DAT file cleanup tools? or: Zero by any other name
 
Do any of the command-line DAT tools do cleanups on floating-point numbers? I've noticed lot of lines lately with very-near-zero floating-point numbers, like these lines, for example... (...) ...which certainly don't hurt anything, but they could (...) (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: DAT file cleanup tools? or: Zero by any other name
 
They do hurt things. When viewing dat's in ldlite via the web interface parts with exponents do not render. They do render when you load them from a local file however. I think MLcad is generating them. KL (...) -3.33067e-015 1.10441e-029 32014.DAT (...) (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: DAT file cleanup tools? or: Zero by any other name
 
(...) I haven't had any problem with MLcad in this respect. Possibly LeoCAD? Duane (...) (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: DAT file cleanup tools? or: Zero by any other name
 
(...) Not in and of themselves, they don't. Only where there's a bug in interpreting them, which there was. (...) Did you read the "p.s."? :-) (...) (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)
 
  Re: DAT file cleanup tools? or: Zero by any other name
 
It is the previous version of ML-Cad that has this presentation of zero when a part has been rotated. In version 1.4, the problem has been fixed. I did point out the problem from version 1.3 in the message: (URL) suggest all upgrade to version 1.4, (...) (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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