At 03:40 PM 10/4/2002 -0400, Jonathan M. Freedman wrote:

>so u pass 123456 in one var (intcomponent) and another (-3) in a second
>variable (deccomponent)

And 0 or 1 in a third variable, (nulcomponent).

>?, and what is a descriptor?

Rather than passing fields by reference or value, you pass a
reference to a structure that includes the datatype, scale,
null state, length (for some datatypes), subtype, and address
of the actual data.



Regards,

Ann
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