On 7/23/2012 11:43 AM, Darren New wrote:
> 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.
>
I think we probably used a lot more of the "display" sort, just so we 
could see, in the crash dump, what the hell happened. lol

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