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Re: Beginner question re: CPYBTL

Thanks... that does do the trick.  I also now see that
bit numbering starts at 0 not 1.


I could have done TESTB and BITON & BITOFF but that
seemed... well too mundane for my mood right now.
Thought this might be a bit nicer.  Idle hands are the
devil's playground!


Tom

--- Leif Svalgaard <leif@leif.org> wrote:

> INIT(X'61626300')
>
> you were thinking binary and thought:
> INIT(B'01100001011000100110001100000000');
>



> hate to say it, but you CAN do bit manipulation in
> any language,
> even COBOL and RPG. You don't need any fancy
> extensions
> if BIF's.



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