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Purpose

 

 

Specify the sign flag for packed decimal and money fields

 

 

 

Prototype

 

 

FUNCTION Bt_Pack0c ( lNew )  AS LOGIC

 

 

 

Argument(s)

 

 

<lNew>        LOGIC                TRUE tells VO2Btrieve to use the 0x0C flag when writing data (Default)

                         FALSE tells VO2Btrieve to write the 0x0F flag.

 

 

 

 

Return

 

 

LOGIC                The current setting of Bt_Pack0c()

 

 

 

Description

 

 

This function is normally not needed

 

Packed decimal and money fields use a sign flag to specify if values are positive (flags 0x0C or 0x0F) or negative (flag 0x0D). Most applications check for both the positive flags (like Vo2btrieve) but some applications only check for the flag 0x0C 0r 0x0F. By default Vo2btrieve checks for both flags, but writes data using the 0x0C flag.

 

With this function you can tell Vo2btrieve to use the 0x0F flag to write the data.