Re: Programmatically Building List of Values for a CMD

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nope - hence the confusion - both 4,n and 5,n take up 3 bytes

Rule is, add 1, then divide by 2 and round up.

At 05:48 AM 1/18/2007, you wrote:

> Packed? Divide by 2 and round up, right?
>
> On 1/18/07, Joe D <nike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <Matt.Haas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >  If you need to do the conversion of your
> > > counter to hex, I think you can create a data structure that has a two
> > > byte numeric field as the first sub field (my head exploded several
> > > hours ago so I'm not going to look up that part) and then another sub
> > > field for the character part. You should be able to pass the data
> > > structure to whatever needs it at that point in the proper format.
> >
> > Doh!  That seems to be what I was missing.  Thanks again for the helpful
> > hint!
> >
> > On a side note, am I the only one who gets confused when defining packed or
> > binary fields?  Remembering the rules about how many bytes it 
> will really be
> > once packed is not actually hard, but it is not very intuitive either.
> >
> > Good night,
> > JD
> >
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