VMS Help Lexicals, F$CVUI  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

    Extracts bit fields from character string data and converts the
    result to an unsigned number.

    Format

      F$CVUI(start-bit,number-of-bits,string)

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