HP 3000 Manuals

High-Level Screen Management Intrinsic Library (Hi-Li) Reference Manual

Data Transfer Method F 

This method lets you transfer data and perform data type conversions
using an ARB you have defined in the forms file.  Use method F if your
application requires data type conversions and only one buffer is used to
transfer data.

You indictate this data transfer method by assigning the value 1000 or
1100 to descrpttype.  The value 1000 tells Hi-Li to convert real
(floating point) numbers according to HP 3000 format rules.  The value
1100 tells Hi-Li to convert real (floating point) numbers according to
IEEE format rules.

The values you must supply to use method F are:

descrpttype               Supply a value of 1000 to convert real numbers
                          using MPE formatting rules.

                          Supply a value of 1100 to convert real numbers
                          using IEEE formatting rules.

Examples 

        COBOL:      01   datadescrpt          pic s9(8) comp.

        FORTRAN:    INTEGER*4     DATADESCRPT

        Pascal:     var
             datadescrpt          : integer;

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