RE: Parameters passed to RPG -- MIDRANGE-L

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At 16:52 12/30/1998 -0800, Rajeev Asthana wrote:
>Thanks a lot. It worked!!!
>But why I need to expand it to 4 or to 8 digits when it's already an 
>even no. of digits.

Packed variables are always an odd number of digits in length. The actual
length of the variable in bytes is (n+1)/2. A 7 digit packed variable will
occupy 4 bytes of space. This is because the last nibble is occupied by the
sign.
Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh
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