[WEB400] Re: QtmhRdStin and QzhbCgiParse Limitation

[Hans Boldt <boldt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Buck wrote:
> ... 
> Oh, and Hans - I know you won't be removing the 'b' support, but there is
> one good reason to use the old 'b' data type, and that is program described
> file specs which look something like this '1 4b2'  The integer data type
> doesn't support decimals, but the old 'b' does.  Sigh.  The things us old
> timers have to put up with!
>   --buck

Oh, I was well aware of that special case when I commented earlier 
that there was no good use of binary decimal numeric! ;-)

You mean there really are databases out there that use binary 
decimal numeric with non-zero decimal places?

BTW, note that you can't define binary numeric fields in DDS with 
more than 0 decimal places once you go past 9 digits. If you try, 
you get a message that says: "Decimal positions too large for data 
type."

Cheers! Hans