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

Thousands Separator (-numsep)

Use Thousands Separator (-numsep) to change the character that represents a number’s thousands separator in formatted text.

Operating system and syntax	UNIX Windows	-numsep numeric-value
Use with	Maximum value	Minimum value	Single-user default	Multi-user default
Client Session	–	–	, (comma)	, (comma)

numeric-value

The numeric value of the character that represents the thousands separator.

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

The thousands separator 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 + - < > ( ) * ?
Any multi-byte character.
Note: You can represent the thousands separator with the space character.

As an example, to change the thousands separator in formatted text to an apostrophe (whose numeric value in the ISO8859-1 code page is 39), use:

-numsep 39

The default thousands separator is the comma (,).