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on 08/30/2006
at 07:38 AM, "Chase, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>AFAIK our "shop standard" back in VS COBOL II days was to specify
>TRUNC(BIN) for all "online" programs. I think most "address-type"
>fields were specified PIC S9(8) COMP, so the "decimal limitation" got
>hit a lot sooner.
Doesn't COBOL allow declaring variables as binary? It used to.
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