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Curtis Larsen <[log in to unmask]>
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Curtis Larsen <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:04:12 -0400
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Okay, pardon this dumb question, but my brain has frozen solid for
today.

According to the extremely ambiguous info, we need to set the 14th
and/or 15th bits of the VSETNEXTCENTURY JCW in order to enable certain
VPLUS Y2K behaviors.  (All other bits must be reset.)

How does one do this using the SETJCW command?

I thought it would be "SETJCW VSETNEXTCENTURY WARN", but that doesn't
work.
(Of course, I'm not sure what the manual considers the LSB to be.
Either we're talking about 16,384 or 4, but we're not seeing happy on
either choice.)


Of course, this spins off two other questions:

1. Isn't there some sort of binary prefix operator like there is for
octal and hex?
"SETJCW VSETNEXTCENTURY B010000000000000" would be pretty nifty.

2. WHY in the world was SETTING BITS determined to be a Good Way To Do
It?
Wouldn't something like "SETJCW VSETNEXTCENTURY 1" and "SETJCW
VSETSIGDIGITS 4" be easier to understand?



Many thanks in advance for any answers.

Curtis

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