Microsoft KB Archive/21111

Definition of HIGH-VALUES

PSS ID Number: Q21111 Article last modified on 11-16-1992

2.00 2.10 MS-DOS

Summary: MS COBOL Version 2.00 assigns HIGH-VALUES as hexadecimal 7F. This assignment is a unique definition for HIGH-VALUES; most mainframe environments use hexadecimal FF. The value associated with HIGH-VALUES was changed in Version 2.10; MS COBOL now assigns HIGH-VALUES as hexadecimal FF.

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