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From: J French on 11 Oct 2005 07:56
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:32:06 +0100, "Mike Williams"
<Mike(a)WhiskyAndCoke.com> wrote:

<snip>

>However, in BCD the decimal number 10 would be held in
>two bytes as (in hex representation to make things clear) &H010A and the
>same decimal number 10 as "packed BCD" would be held in one byte as &H1A.

0 to 9 0 to 9
[128][64][32][16] | [8][4][2][1]
1 0 0 0 0

&h10 or Chr$(16) which ties up with the original post

>Personally I think it might be wise to wait un til the OP posts again so
>that we know exactly what his requirements are.

>Mike

I used to know a lot about packed BCD as that was the format for
Microsoft Business Basic, also for Track 2 on a credit card

'unpacked' BCD might as well be String Arithmetic
- something I've never seen in MS - but IIRC VAX BASIC supported it

Hmm... I think the OP might be messing around with a device that
writes mag strips on credit cards.




>

From: Mike Williams on 11 Oct 2005 08:28
"J French" <erewhon(a)nowhere.uk> wrote in message
news:434ba469.273894686(a)news.btopenworld.com...

.. . . oops! I'm afraid I got that completely wrong! I knew exactly what I
wanted to write, but with Maureen hovering over my shoulder and wanting her
computer back it somehow didn't turn out that way :-(

Silly me.

Mike




From: J French on 11 Oct 2005 08:37
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 13:28:07 +0100, "Mike Williams"
<Mike(a)WhiskyandCoke.com> wrote:

>"J French" <erewhon(a)nowhere.uk> wrote in message
>news:434ba469.273894686(a)news.btopenworld.com...
>
>. . . oops! I'm afraid I got that completely wrong! I knew exactly what I
>wanted to write, but with Maureen hovering over my shoulder and wanting her
>computer back it somehow didn't turn out that way :-(

Not entirely wrong

- but better I caught it rather than leave it for posterity


From: ck on 11 Oct 2005 19:17

"Duane Bozarth" <dpbozarth(a)swko.dot.net> wrote in message
news:434ACA86.D0AAC2A6(a)swko.dot.net...
> Randy Birch wrote:

>
> I'm thinking this sounds like documentation for some piece of hardware
> written in what passes as an English translation--I've had a few
> Advantech boards recently that were candidates for a contest of
> poor/misleading/erroneous documentation. :(
>

My favorite:

"Do not press the keys hardly...."

Chris A. Kusmierz


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