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  3. July 2002

Re: Ugh.

From: R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr. <rbruceh@attglobal.net>
> don't use comp. This is the age of COBOL 85.
> Use:
>   77 field1 pic s9(7)v2 packed-decimal.
>   77 field2 pic s9(9) binary.
>   77 field3 pic s9(9).
basically agree, of course. I haven't look for a while, but
last time I did, it normally doesn't pay to use binary because
they are converted internally to/from packed, such that
ADD 1 TO W-BIN
results in:
CONVERT W-BIN TO PACKED-W
CONVERT 1 TO PACKED-1
ADD PACKED1 TO PACKED-W
CONVERT PACKED-W TO W-BIN

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