Michael Smith writes: >>> "Michael P. Smith" <[log in to unmask]> 01/04/99 02:26pm >>> I have a user who wants to read some COBOL packed decimal fields in C. He informs me that there are some intrinsics for doing this but that they are not documented. The intrinsics that he is interested in are: HPPACCVAD, HPPACCVBD, and HPPACCVDB. A search of the WWW finds a document regarding these intrinsics but they are quoting a Series 800 manual. Are these "intrinsics" callable on the HP/3000? Under Posix? The above mentioned link is http://www.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/doc/man/hpux/HPPACSUBD.3x.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The intrinsics you want to use are documented in the Compiler Library Manual, chapter 4, Packed-Decimal Procedures. The current manual date is Oct 1988. They are callable from all languages. Mike Berkowitz Guess? Inc.