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Conference ilbbak::ibi_focus

Title:FOCUS, from INFORMATION BUILDERS
Moderator:ZAYIUS::BROUILLETTE
Created:Thu Feb 19 1987
Last Modified:Mon May 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:615
Total number of notes:1779

77.0. "FOCUS handling packed fields" by EVOAI1::CHAPMAN () Mon Jun 20 1988 08:13

	Has anybody tried using focus on the LARS data bases?
	It works fine untill you try to look at the "time" fields
	e.g.      
    
	DATATRIEVE
    	----------
    	REPAIR_TIME PIC 9(2). EDIT_STRING IS 9(4) USAGE COMP.
                  
    	FOCUS
    	-----
    	FILENAME=LARS,SUFFIX=FIX
    	SEGNAME=ONE,SEGTYPE=S1
        FIELDNAME=REPAIR_TIME,ALIAS=,ACTUAL=P4,USAGE=A4,$
    
	This field is 2 bytes long and contains 4 numerical characters.
	(packed but without the sign)

	Datatrieve handles these fields ok but focus doesn't seem to
	like the missing sign!

	I'd appreciate any help

				geoff
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