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' Subject: COMBINE LOW & HIGH BITS            Date: 05-18-97 (22:31)       
'  Author: Kurt Kuzba                         Code: QB, QBasic, PDS        
'  Origin: FidoNet QUIK_BAS Echo            Packet: FAQS.ABC
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'>   If I have a certain number in hex (say, &H10FF), I can
'>   get the high bit (&H10) by dividing by 256, and the low
'>   bit(&HFF) by doing &H10FF MOD 256, but here is the problem.
'>   If I have a high bit (lets take &H10 again), and a low
'>   bit (&HFF again), how do I combine them into one hex
'>   number? (back to &H10FF)
'>....
' Try something like this once.
CLS
th$ = "&H1234"
t& = VAL(th$)
t1% = INT(t& \ &H100)
t2% = INT(t& AND &HFF)
PRINT th$; t&; t1%; t2%
t& = t1%
t& = t& * &H100
t& = t& + t2%
PRINT "&H"; HEX$(t&)