RE: New Opcodes - %SETCELL (base conversion)

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I may have mentioned this before (stop me if you've heard this one), but I
took a class in 8086 assembler a few years ago.  The teacher was a veteran
of 8 bit machine words.  When we got to base conversion he said:  "When I
want to convert decimal to hex or decimal to binary or vice versa, I always
convert it to octal first."  He could do it in his head about as fast as I
can add one digit numbers.  I relied on my calculator. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John P Carr [mailto:jpcarr@tredegar.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 10:17 AM
> To: RPG400-L
> Subject: Re: New Opcodes - %SETCELL
> 
> 
> 

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> 
> Here's what's in the  FCNTL member in the H source file in QSYSINC 
> 
> #define O_CODEPAGE   040000000  /* code page flag           */   
> #define O_TEXTDATA  0100000000  /* text data flag                */   
> 
> How'd you make the magic leap of knowing the above is 
> 8388608 ?    BTW,  are the above Octal by chance ?   Why 
> yes they are !!  Now it's very intuitive to everyone to convert
> from Octal to Dec to make it work in RPG.   
> 
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