On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 13:20, John Summerfield wrote: > As for the money, I learned to write financial applications in COBOL. > Whoops, it's extremely rusty. > mony PIC S9(11v3) COMP-3. > and in PL/1 > money fixed dec(11,3). COBOL, such a beutiful language! If a total overflows the destination field it just chops off the most significant digit. Perfect for Enron and naturally the Pentagon for whom it was originally designed. Bob