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in reply to Re^2: Binary Coded Decimal
in thread Binary Coded Decimal

I figured the explanations were useful, and the conversion code in the article could serve as a staring-point example, and be modified to deal with BCD. The OP was looking for a starting point. I did not find any direct BCD starting points, so I posted the EBCDIC one.

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