RE: How come this returns a decimal value ... ? -- RPG400-L

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Subject: RE: How come this returns a decimal value ... ?
From: "Jon Paris" <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:10:06 -0500
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I suspect the original example pre-dated the introduction of 1 byte integers
in RPG IV.  It can be more simply (and directly) coded now with no need for
an overlay.

 D IntChar DS
 D IntNum 3I 0 INZ(0)

IntChar = X'C0';


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