April,
please post the xlate. As I said earlier, conversion can be done in tcl.
for an instance:
hcitcl>set AA 5
hcitcl>set BB 2.2
hcitcl>set CC [expr $AA * $BB]
hcitcl>puts $CC
11.0
hcitcl>
you woul dbe better off using tcl. Use this skeleton to build your script.
hope this helps.
reggie
