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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

185.0. "Help needed describing RDB file to FOCUS" by BTO::STODDARD_N () Wed Mar 01 1989 15:36

    I'm trying to describe an RDB file to FOCUS and have an RDB field
    that is a signed longword scale -2.  The RDB Interface manual says
    to use an ACTUAL of I4 for a signed longword.  This truncates the
    drops the cents on the end of the field and rounds.  Does anyone
    know what I can use to get FOCUS to display the field properly?
    
    Nancy Stoddard

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185.1 hope this helps PNO::TOBIN Wed Mar 01 1989 18:00 11

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185.1	hope this helps	PNO::TOBIN		`Wed Mar 01 1989 18:00`	11
	Nancy, I had exactly the same problem. The way I described the field in the FOCUS master file is as follows: USAGE = F8.2, FORMAT = F4 Don't know if this is the correct way to do it, but it fixed the truncating and rounding problem. Lou Tobin

    Nancy,
    
    	I had exactly the same problem.  The way I described the field
    in the FOCUS master file is as follows:
    		USAGE = F8.2, FORMAT = F4
    
    Don't know if this is the correct way to do it, but it fixed the
    truncating and rounding problem.
                                                                
    Lou Tobin