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  3. September 2001

RE: Packed vs. Zoned

The problem is that the date is stored in a totally useless format for
sorting and comparison, not the numeric format per se.  One of the cool
things about true dates is that you can write a couple of procedures to
handle the numeric dates like that and not worry about them.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: CHARLES ROGERS [mailto:CHARLES.ROGERS@nucorsteelsc.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 8:23 AM
> To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Packed vs. Zoned
>
>
> we converted ours also.  but working with flat files that have existed
> for years that are packed in format mmddyy is nothing but painful
>
>

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