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Subject: "Raw" Edit of PF?
From: "Dave Boettcher" <DBoettch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:40:31 -0600
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It is also possible to twiddle the bits.
Years ago we had the problem of a mainframe file using Hex C instead of Hex F for numeric. The code below fixed it.

c bitoff '67' Bits84

There were defiinitions that Bits84 overlaid the number with the decimal data error, but it's been years and that part seems to have been misplaced.

hth

Dave B

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