worley@compass.com (Dale Worley) (05/29/90)
Ken Shafer (klshafer@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu) writes: > The object lesson here is that, if for ANY reason you can not use > character types to store character data, USE TYPE INTEGER rather > than TYPE REAL. There's no guarantee that even that works. On a one's compliment machine (like the old 60-bit CDC machines), all-ones and all-zeroes both represent integer 0, in which case INTEGER .EQ. might not do what you want, unless you know that at least one of these values can't occur. Dale Worley Compass, Inc. worley@compass.com -- Using MS-DOS on a '386 is like using a Formula 1 race car to do your grocery shopping.