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Re: COBOL Compile "DATA AREA" Question
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Neil Armstrong <[log in to unmask]>
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Neil Armstrong <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 18 Jan 2006 10:40:55 -0500
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At 10:21 AM 1/18/2006, Neil Armstrong wrote:
Jeff pointed out that Brian was likely asking about the compiler output numbers
and converting to numeric, so in this context my contribution is unhelpful.

Sorry for the bandwidth waste.

Neil


>At 08:55 AM 1/18/2006, Jeff Kell wrote:
>In all the cases listed as solutions to Brians question an assumption is
>made as to what the result "type" that the result should be in depending
>on the type of the data. Since Brian mentioned human readable, I
>generally feel that this means byte type. For example if you have hex :
>
>7320 6C6F 7665 2068 6578 0D0A
>
>you can convert each *byte* position using a standard Ascii/Hex Table,
>I use my Orbit Pocket Guide, to convert each hex pair:
>
>7320 6C6F 7665 2068 6578 0D0A
>
>this converts to:
>
>  I <space> lo ve <space> h ex CR LF
>
>So while Qedit/Calc etc can convert the values of hex/decimal/Octal
>etc, you still need an ASCII table to look at the character value.
>
>At least that is how I interpreted the question.
>
>Neil
>
>
>
>>Tony Summers wrote:
>> > 1) MPEX does the same as Qedit
>> > 2) Windows calculator (under view) has a "scientific" option - allows
>> > you to do hex/decimal/octal/binary arithmetic and convert from one 2
>> > t'other.
>> > From: Brian Donaldson
>> > Sent: 18 January 2006 07:42
>> > To: [log in to unmask]
>> > Subject: [HP3000-L] COBOL Compile "DATA AREA" Question
>> >
>> > Can someone explain to me how to convert into a user friendly
>> > displayable value?
>> >
>> > How do I translate the "E0" and " 9AD0" byte values to numeric values
>> > that "makes sense?"
>>Or just plain old MPE.  ':CALC $E0'
>>
>>Jeff
>>
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