I don't know your answer, but its "endian", not "Indian", as in which
end of the bit string is the MSB OMost Signifcant Bit, an award that
Brett Favre has one many times!) :)

On 2/10/09, Michael Anderson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> When porting data from Turbo Image to Eloquence on Windows, does Eloquence
> change the bit order to "Little Indian" to make Windows programs happy?
>
> Or is it the Eloquence DBGET on Windows that flips's the bits around?
>
> The HP3000 (or PA-RISC) is referred to as "BIG Indian". Bits are layout
> right-to-left.
>
> Windows (Or Intel) is referred to as "Little Indian".
> Bits are layout left-to-right.
>
> Newer COBOL compilers have a COMP-5 data items that refers to the "Little
> Indian" or "BIG Indian" depending on the machine where the program is
> running, and COMP is the "BIG Indian bit order" only, correct me if I'm
> wrong.
>
> I moved an HP3000 COBOL Program to Windows; I changed all the COMP fields
> to COMP-5 fields, compiled (ACU COBOL) and ran it.
>
> The Image data that this program needs was migrated to Eloquence on
> Windows and HPUX.
>
> The program is using COMP-5 in the database buffers, why is it (while
> running on Windows) correctly reading data from a Big Indian machine as
> well as the Little Indian machine. When I change the COMP-5 fields to COMP
> it reads computation data incorrectly from the database on both machines.
> It must be the Eloquence DBGET that flips's the bits on the fly.
>
> I think the database is storing data in the big Indian format, on Windows
> and HPUX, same as it was on MPE. But is there is a method to
> change/control this craziness.
>
> Mike Anderson
> 832-515.3868
>
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