Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!sdd.hp.com!think!compass!worley From: worley@compass.COM (Dale Worley) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: "PACKED COMP-3" format Message-ID: Date: 23 Jul 90 14:32:20 GMT References: <557@synopsys.COM> <120309@pyramid.pyramid.com> Sender: root@compass.com Organization: Compass, Inc, Wakefield, MA Lines: 12 In-reply-to: mikel@pyramid.pyramid.com's message of 18 Jul 90 16:03:06 GMT In article <120309@pyramid.pyramid.com> mikel@pyramid.pyramid.com (Mike Lipsie) writes: COMPUTATIONAL is integer ... COMPUTATIONAL-1 and -2 are single and double precision floating ... COMPUTATIONAL-3 is packed decimal... But do beware that this is just the way IBM does it. Other vendors are free to use different formats for COMP-n items. Dale Worley Compass, Inc. worley@compass.com -- That's so deep, I'm getting the bends.... If you want me, I'll be in the decompression chamber.