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From: jlau@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Jorge Lau)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: packed integers
Message-ID: <5636@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 6 Dec 89 20:25:05 GMT
Reply-To: jlau@uhccux.UUCP (Jorge Lau)
Organization: University of Hawaii
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hi this is a follow up to my recent question...
I have to specifically read in a datafile full of character and integer inputs,
i have to pack each of them taking the least available space....

in other words, the record when dumped to screen should show a packed
number 16 when saving an integer 16, not the ascii representation, or
hexadecimal stuff, stuff like 4C 39 48 representing the letters of the alphabet
     thanks for your help........ 8)