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Technology Stocks : Y2K (Year 2000) Stocks: An Investment Discussion
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To: TEDennis who wrote (7060)10/26/1997 8:12:00 PM
From: tom rusnak  Read Replies (1) of 13949
 
TED, regarding sending modified data to VISA,

Any solution that modifies your data is going to have to look at modifying the process before sending data outside of the complex.

One aspect, however, of using the zone digits of character data is that using a real hardware PACK instruction functions the same regardless of what is in the zone digits. This allows a program that has not been modified for Vertex to continue to work whether or not the data has bigits or not, assuming that the program operates on the data with a PACK, PACKED OPERATION, UNPACK sequence of instructions as I'm guessing high level languages are going to be using.

Personally, I'd be making the data 'human readable' before sending it offsite myself.

tom
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