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Jon,

Look at the file layouts. The date field is a 6 byte character field and
the century field is a second 1 byte character field. So you don't even
get the benefit of a packed number. Besides, any sane person would have
stored a packed 7 digit date as CYYMMDD.

ODCCEN CHAR 1 1 111 Both Creation
Century
Field text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Creation century

ODCDAT CHAR 6 6 112 Both Creation
Date
Field text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Creation date: format-
mmddyy


Rob Berendt

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