Data conversion - Binary to Character

["Andrew Goade" <agoade@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was wondering if anyone had an easy way to convert from numeric data
types to character types and back.  I have a data structure that contains
alpha, packed, and binary fields.  It gets moved into a long alpha field
and passed to another program.  Instead of reading the long alpha field
into back into the data structure, I would like to substring out the
variables and move them to hold fields.  When I substring out the binary (4
positions in the buffer) to a 4 alpha field and try to move it to a 9b 0
field, my program blows up.  The hex values of the fields are the same, so
it makes me wonder why RPG won't do the conversion.

Thanks,
Andy