Re: Cobol convert program Job Request

Howard Brazee wrote:
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:51:05 -0700, Louis Krupp
<lkrupp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The record matches the layout perfectly!
Micro Focus S9(4) COMP is two bytes binary
and 9V9(4) COMP is three bytes binary.



How do you fit a sign and four digits into two bytes? (Or am I being unusually dense today?)

A byte holds 16 bits - 15 plus the sign. +9999d = 10011100001111b


So I *was* dense. I was thinking "packed decimal" for no really good reason...

Louis
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