>Another example: a value of -32767 would be represented as:
> |32|76|7B| or |32|76|7E| again assuming that a 3-byte field was wanted. By the way I feel a little unsure about the negative signs (not what you want to hear, I'm sure) but you can be certain that "F"is the standard for a positive number.


I've seen D or B (can't really be sure, it's been a long time ago), as I've seen implemented in some RM Cobol tables (tables? OK, let's call them tables), and also in VAX Cobol. I've just checked my conversion routine generator for RM Cobol, and it's BCD2Num function treats only C and F as plus sign, and anything else as minus.