BCD Encoding?

[Timo Salmi LASK]

In article <2024 at naucse.UUCP> wew at naucse.UUCP (Bill Wilson) writes:
>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?

You might try to take a look at Turbo Pascal version *3* manual, or
Turbo Professional 5.0 (from TurboPower) manual. They both include
BCD arithetic, and might have the specs.

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