Nah, The COBOL Programmers are to much involved in a code, no time to join...

Preparing Y3K...

Cheers
>>> Ted Ashton <[log in to unmask]> 05/16/00 08:54AM >>>
Aren't the COBOL folks going to join in here soon?

Thus it was written in the epistle of Tom,
> You can also use Business Basic which not only supports long integers,
> but also has floating point DECIMAL format.
>
> Sletten Kenneth W KPWA wrote:
> >
> > Larry, Bruce, Ted, et. al.:
> >
> > > Thus it was written in the epistle of Bruce Toback,
> > > > Larry Barnes writes:
> > > >
> > > > >COM LONG C1,C2,C3,S1[300]
> > > >
> > > > It means that C1 is a 32-bit integer (LONG) that's shared among
> > > > subprograms that call each other using INVOKE (COM).
> > >
> > > With due respect, I believe it's a long real.  I'd be
> > > delighted if BASIC had
> > > long integers :-).
> >
> > <smug alert>
> >
> > Transact/iX supports 32-bit Integers;  storage length up to
> > 12 BYTES.
> >
> > </smug>
> >
> > :-) ,
> > Ken Sletten

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