C-ISAM can store data on disk in several ways; any of these can be read from or written to using a PROIV application. The C-ISAM data types and the corresponding entries at the PROIV file definition field External Type is as follows:

C-ISAM Type

PROIV Type

Comments

CHAR

ALPHA

ASCII character data

INT

PCOMP1

Two-byte integer

LONG

PCOMP2

Four-byte integer

DECIMAL

C-DEC

Decimal Format, storage format required

FLOAT

C-FLT

Single Precision floating point

DOUBLE

C-DBL

Double Precision floating point

C-ISAM Data Types and PROIV

All other PROIV external types can be used with C-ISAM files, but non-PROIV applications may need additional programming to convert them.

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