RE:

["Joel Harvell" <joelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why would converting a parm to hex be better?  Maybe that's a dumb question
but I really don't understand that.

jbh

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of ilechr@cbs.fiserv.com
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 8:26 AM
To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
Subject:


When calling an RPG program from the command line with a numeric input
parameter it is far better to convert it into hex. Thus your call would be
:

 CALL PGM(ALIBARY/PROGRAMX) PARM(x'9f')

HTH


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