Guest.Visitor
01-01-1995, 02:00 AM
Jack, First a disclaimer -- I've never used vb; but when I see "truncation" and "packed fields" in the same description it makes me wonder if some code is looking at the record as a NULL terminated string. A packed field of value 5 defined as (7 0) would be received as x'0000005F' and a lot of PC code would stop looking after the first NULL (x'00') byte. And then again it could be something totally different.