Decimal V Binary??

[Fred Cisin]

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Paul Koning wrote:

> I would assume that Cobol and (possibly) RPG would have an option to
> use CIS if available, but no other language is likely to do so.

IIRC, Only if explicitly specified in the ENVIRONMENT division.

COBOL had extensive [but not often used] cross-platform
capabilities by specifying in the source code both what
kind of system was to compile it, AND what the target system
was.