Packed Decimal Conversion fns sought, TFM is silent

[Jon McCown]

I am looking for routines to munge IBM/370 style packed decimal data into
a long (or int) and vice versa.  ptol or ltop anyone?  Range checking is
not a major concern (yet).

My work on the problem has produced some medium kludgy and slow routines that
have yet to be proven reliable.  Surely someone has an elegant (or at least
well tested) shot at this. . . . ?

- Jon McCown

(No, I don't have a COBOL compiler on the system :-)


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