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- From: nelson_don@comm.tandem.com (Don Nelson)
- Newsgroups: alt.cobol
- Subject: Re: comp-3 and ascii data representation
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.175542.20192@tandem.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 17:55:42 GMT
- References: <1k2hkgINNcvi@shelley.u.washington.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan26.130641.5325@mfltd.co.uk> James Fidell,
- jfid@mfltd.co.uk writes:
- >
- >In article <1k2hkgINNcvi@shelley.u.washington.edu>,
- >lambert@stein.u.washington.edu (D. Lambert) writes:
- >> Is there a good source of information on how the numerical data
- >> is stored in memory?
- >>
- >> Is there a program which would analyzed the file in a systematic
- >> way to display the numeric contents correctly, without the need
- >> for the file pic information?
- >>
- >> D. M. Lambert
- >>
- >
- >I think this depends on what COBOL you are using, and what you mean by
- >the word "file" -- a file created by a COBOL program on disk ? a COBOL
- >executable ?
- >
- Exactly. Different implementations store numeric information in
- different ways.
- Almost every implementor spells this out in their reference manuals.
- Read the
- manual.
-
- There is no way to read a data file (that is obviously what he means) and
- figure out where the numeric information is. There are lots of tools
- that
- do this for you given the data descriptions.
-
- Don Nelson
- COBOL Development, Tandem Computers, Inc
- nelson_don@comm.tandem.com
- No clever quotes here
-