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From: awd@dbase.A-T.COM (Alastair Dallas)
Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.lang.c,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer,sci.math.num-analysis
Subject: Re: BCD Encoding?
Summary: No help short term
Keywords: BCD, dbase
Message-ID: <522@dbase.A-T.COM>
Date: 12 Apr 90 00:50:27 GMT
References: <2024@naucse.UUCP>
Organization: Ashton Tate Development Center Glendale, Calif.
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In article <2024@naucse.UUCP>, wew@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?

The information is proprietary, but 1) even _I_ would vote to release it,
I think (and I'm pretty conservative); and 2) Ashton-Tate is planning to
release file format information in some form to some group of people
(developers under non-disclosure, everyone, or something inbetween) soon.
I will make it my business to find out more about our policy and respond
to the net.

/alastair/