I'm curious to understand which part of the documentation the two of you read. Would you mind sending me mail off the list? Thanks.
As for documentation, I agree that one can never have enough. So you got more than 200 pages of PIPENEW.PDF last Monday. It does say this in chapter 5, the SEPC reference: "Composite conversion (x2y) is performed strictly via the C format; that is, x2C followed by C2y." So it is doing X2C followed by C2D. If you read about C2D: "Convert a binary integer using twos-complement notation for negative numbers to a character string." I cannot think of a way to make that clearer. But I shall certainly entertain suggestions. j.
