On 22/12/2007, at 7:37 AM, Chris Bipes wrote:
Binary data is always unsigned.
No it's not. It's only always unsigned when you are dealing with
character data. When the APIs refer to BINARY(2) and BINARY(4) they
mean INTEGERS which are binary numbers. You can have signed and
unsigned integers and therefore signed and unsigned binary.
Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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