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IBw.d informat

IBw.d informat

Reads integer binary (fixed-point) values

Numeric

Width range: 1 to 8

Default width: 4

Decimal range: 0 to 10

UNIX specifics: byte values

The IBw.d informat reads fixed-point binary values. For integer binary data, the high-order bit is the value's sign: 0 for positive values, 1 for negative. Negative values are represented in two's-complement notation. If the informat includes a d value, the data value is divided by 10^d.

For more details, see Reading and Writing Binary Data .

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