negative numbers

Date:   9/4/98  6:33 PM

RE:     negative numbers

>I am creating net.data macros using RPG. Every thing to Net.data is a
>string. So when I return integers I am moving the data into a character
>field. If the number is negative I am getting a weird string. Example -50.93
>is being returned as 509L or -400.00 is returned as 4000}. What is the
>easiest way to create a normal string pattern from a negative integer. 
>
>Thanks 
>Shadrach Scott
>sscott@hiu.edu


Gee, seeing the numbers took me back to the 3741 key to diskette.  
JKLMNOP} Hollerith(?) code.  the number pad was over those letters.
-1,-2,-3,-4,-5,-6,-7,-8,-9  

Sorry,  got lost there for a minute.  On second thought. 
I don't have an answer for ya,  sorry for wasteing you time.

John Carr

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