Re: Accessing data type 'G' in RPG ??? -- RPG400-L

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Subject: Re: Accessing data type 'G' in RPG ???
From: "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:19:55 -0800
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Joe Pluta wrote:

DBCS in EBCDIC refers specifically to the graphical data type using the shift-in and shift-out characters which allow you to switch between double-byte and single-byte character modes.

That only applies to "mixed" data formats ("O," for instance). "G" is, by definition, fixed at a constant size of 2 bytes per character.

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