Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Deployment:
Startup Command and Parameter Reference

Fractional Separator (-numdec)

Use Fractional Separator (-numdec) to change the character that represents a number’s decimal point in formatted text.

Operating system and syntax	UNIX Windows	-numdec numeric-value
Use with	Maximum value	Minimum value	Single-user default	Multi-user default
Client Session	–	–	. (period)	. (period)

numeric-value

The numeric value of the character that represents the decimal point.

Progress converts numeric-value to its character equivalent using the code page corresponding to the Internal Code Page (-cpinternal) startup parameter.

The decimal point cannot be represented by any of the following:

The characters B C D R Z z 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + - < > ( ) * ?
The space character.
Any multi-byte character.

As an example, to change the decimal point in formatted text to a comma (whose numeric value in the ISO8859-1 code page is 44), use:

-numdec 44

The default decimal point is the period (.).