On 7/23/2012 7:04, Invisible wrote:
> If he really /means/ that it stored two /characters/, that would be 16 bits,
> not 8. (But I rather doubt that's what it does.)

Sometimes, sometimes not. There's a data type for "packed BCD", and a data 
type for "display BCD."  Which you stored depends on what you intended to do 
with it. Remember that COBOL is also intended as a report generator, to a 
large extent.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Oh no! We're out of code juice!"
   "Don't panic. There's beans and filters
    in the cabinet."

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