BCD Encoding?

[Bill Wilson]

dBASE IV writes it's new numeric variables to the memory variable save
files in BCD format unless the variable is set up as fixed.  I need
to know the format of BCD so that I can interpret the numbers for
a project that I am working on.  Any clues?


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Bill Wilson             (Bitnet: ucc2wew at nauvm | wilson at nauvax)
Northern AZ Univ  Flagstaff, AZ 86011