On Wednesday, April 30, 2003, at 08:45  PM, barrie wrote:

> I should have said original numbers. I originally put 1's into the 
> array and
> got 257's out of the array..... I am clearly out of my depth here so I 
> will
> be content with just using BLOCK FILL to clear arrays with 0.
> Many thanks for your help
>
If BLOCKFILL works on a byte-by-byte level, filling with "1" will write 
(to an integer):

(binary) 00000001 00000001 (= hex 0101)

which is, of course, 257.
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