Hi Neil! :-)

 NH> I wrote communication programs to download electrical usage 
 NH> information from industrial meters.  Those meters are currently being 
 NH> produced.  One of them stored all values in BCD, and transmitted them
 NH> as such.  In a situation like that, the receiver doesn't have much 
 NH> choice.
Granted. :) I would then convert from BCD to normal binary representation
before processing the data any further.

Ciao
Pascal

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