Re: st: byte variables

[Nick Winter <nw53@cornell.edu>]

My guess is because there are now 26 additional flavors of missing (.a 
through .z), which are coded as the largest values for a given data type.

--Nick WInter

At 10:30 AM 12/18/2003 -0600, you wrote:

> Does anyone know why bytes can only hold numeric data as large as 100 
> now?  They used to hold a maximum of 127.
>
>
> Doug Owens
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