[AccessD] defining constants as hex numbers

Hi John

OK, I guess you know what you're doing.

I just recall this old example which blows if the trailing "&" is
omitted: 

<code>

    Dim WinVer%
    Dim LoByte%
    Dim HiByte%

    WinVer = GetVersion() And &HFFFF&
    LoByte = WinVer And &HFF   ' major version
    HiByte = WinVer \ &HFF     ' minor version
    
    IsWin95 = (HiByte / 100 + LoByte) >= 3.95

</code

GerVersion returns something like 83910403 for a Win2000 machine.

/gustav


> I am dealing with longs and am doing bit manipulations of individual bits
> (which is why I want Hex to begin with) so I must have the ability to deal
> with upper bits.  However I avoid the sign bit so I don't really care if it
> "makes it negative" as long as it doesn't do so by propagating a 1 through
> all of the upper bits such that all of the upper 16 bits are a 1.