Re: RPG dates

[Pete Hall <peteh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:13 08/03/98 -0700, Shadrach Scott wrote:
>
>
>I am a RPG newbie and I was hoping someone could explain a little about
>PF dates. I am teaching my self RPG using Judy Yaeger Programming in RPG
>IV by Duke Press. In all of her DDS PF examples she defines a date as a
>character field. Is this the way it is usually done? Or do you use data
>type L for dates instead? I am trying to come up with advantages and
>disadvantages to doing it one way over the other and since I have so
>little experience I am not sure which I want to use. 

I'd go for the L dates. It one time there was a performance hit to using them, 
and the support was far from complete in RPG, display and printer files. I used 
them even then, but these issues have now been addressed.


Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com 
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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