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On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 22:58:10 -0500, c186282 wrote:

>    But you DID have to increment by 'n' fields every time. In 'C' it was
>    easy to do bit-fields ... so many bits for each kind of data. That
>    made it even more imperative to keep exact track. Hey, memory used to
>    be small .... so you PACKED IT IN - no 32 bits to hold 1,2 or 3
>    Decimal vals ... just mult by 10 or 100 and int().

Ah, bit fields..  We managed to mix and match. In one context

1 -- law enforcement
2 -- fire
3 -- ems
4 -- animal control

but internally it was really

0b0001 -- law enforcement
0b0010 -- fire
0b0100 -- ems
0b1000 -- animal control

so if you wanted to configure an incident code to involve both law and 
animal control it was 9.  Try explaining that to the support people.