Re: Programmatically Building List of Values for a CMD

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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