Limited Features of the Octet function

Simon Roberts · Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 2

hey all,

I am importing data from a Radius server and having to use the OCT function
of Vb6, the problem is on some of the ADSL customers the download field is
an Octet to big for VB to handle, does anybody know of a DLL that will
return the octet to a real percission numeric that I can then use to
display the byte value.

-psyhkal-

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Bob Butler · Joined: 04 Oct 2007 Posts: 2047

"Simon Roberts" wrote in message@203.194.27.1
> hey all,
>
>
> I am importing data from a Radius server and having to use the OCT
> function of Vb6, the problem is on some of the ADSL customers the
> download field is an Octet to big for VB to handle, does anybody know
> of a DLL that will return the octet to a real percission numeric that
> I can then use to display the byte value.

the Oct function in VB formats a value in octal notation and can certainly
handle any octet but I'm guess that you don't really mean an 'octet' which
is a set of 8 bits... maybe if you give an example of the input data and
how you need it formatted somebody can suggest something

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