At 05:03 PM 3/21/2002 +0000, csswa wrote:

>Very neat! I'm going to use a 'Y', though, as a kind of boolean
>reminder. Plus it knocks another byte off, doesn't it? -- returns
>one-byte char instead of two-byte smallint? Either way, an
>improvement on dbkey's eight bytes.

A one byte char, plus two bytes of length, for no gain. Not
worth worrying about.


Regards,

Ann
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