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At 07:26 AM 6/10/98 -0500, Gary Lehman wrote: >So if I defined the field in my program as packed it HAS to be hex? This >may sound like a dumb question but if I key X'0070198F' is the first 0 the >sign digit? Gary, The last F is the sign nibble. If it were negative, it would be a D. If you pass the value by reference or create a command with a parameter that matches the field in the parameter list, you don't need to bother with hex. It's only needed when you are working around the quirks of the CALL command. Pete Pete Hall peteh@inwave.com http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/ +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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