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Re: Data Type - R, R2 and R4
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"Wayne R. Boyer" <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 19 Feb 2002 14:21:05 EST
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The old classic type floating point data types are actually an interesting
conversion issue.  For anyone who has these data types in an Image database,
conversion to a non-HP-3000 platform would require some method of converting
the data to possibly the IEEE floating point data type while on the HP-3000
platform.

Off the top of my head I don't know of any handy intrinsic that does a type
conversion to/from both floating point data types.  Is there such a creature?

Please correct me if I am wrong, but I think that all MANMAN floating point
database fields are still the old "R" type.  There are a lot of those.  This
is significant point for anyone converting away from MANMAN.

Wayne Boyer
Cal-Logic

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