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HP ALLBASE/4GL Developer Reference Manual Vol. 1

Storage Type Codes 

The field specification screen asks you to enter a storage type code.
This code defines the way in which the data manager will physically store
numeric data.  For non-numeric data, the data will always be stored as
alphanumeric text (storage type C).

For numeric data, The table below lists the storage type codes and their
meanings.

  Storage Type    Meaning 

        C         Character (number stored in the
                  same format as it appears on a
                  screen)

        F         Four byte, IEEE floating point

        G         Eight byte, IEEE floating point
                  (double precision)

        I         Two byte 2's complement (integer)

        L         Four byte 2's complement (integer)

        P         Packed decimal (BCD, or binary
                  coded decimal)

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