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Re: st: byte variables


From   Nick Winter <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: byte variables
Date   Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:37:14 -0500

My guess is because there are now 26 additional flavors of missing (.a through .z), which are coded as the largest values for a given data type.

--Nick WInter

At 10:30 AM 12/18/2003 -0600, you wrote:

Does anyone know why bytes can only hold numeric data as large as 100 now? They used to hold a maximum of 127.


Doug Owens

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