RE: Prototype for a command parameter.

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh, yes... I knew they added 8-bit integer fields, but I didn't realize
that they continued to expand the (worthless) "B" data type to 8-bits as
well.

(Or, more correctly, it didn't occur to me to check that...)

Thanks for pointing it out!

On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, David Morris wrote:

> Scot,
>
> Actually, you can define a 2B 0 field; it simply restricts the range
> of values that are valid in the field to -99 through 99. Never tried
> it though and I bet that nine times out of ten  when it is used, it is
> a
> mistake.
>
> David Morris
>
> >>> klemscot@klements.com 12/11/01 03:35PM >>>
>
> There is no "2B 0".   If you mean "4B 0" (which is 2 bytes long, but 4
> digits) then yes, they are very close to the same thing, except that
> the
> "B" data type arbitrarily chops the number off at 4 decimal digits,
> while
> the "I" data type allows the full 16 binary digits.
>