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Slightly OT - How to concatenate multi line strings in DEC COBOL

by sampsa＠mac.com

Well this whole COBOL thing is verging on the humour value anyway, I think I might leave that til later :) Sampsa On 12 Sep 2012, at 20:13, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons wrote: IIRC there was no screen section support in VAX COBOL. Perhaps this can be a good excuse to learn the SMG$ RTL routines... Jordi Guillaumes i Pons Barcelona - Catalunya - Europa El 12/09/2012, a les 17:10, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> va escriure: Tried to compile my little program on GORVAX but it has problems with the SCREEN SECTION that works on the AXP version.. I'm thinking I must have an old compiler or something. Anyone know what the latest is? Anyone have a kit? Sampsa

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Slightly OT - How to concatenate multi line strings in DEC COBOL

by jg＠jordi.guillaumes.name

IIRC there was no screen section support in VAX COBOL. Perhaps this can be a good excuse to learn the SMG$ RTL routines... Jordi Guillaumes i Pons Barcelona - Catalunya - Europa El 12/09/2012, a les 17:10, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> va escriure: Tried to compile my little program on GORVAX but it has problems with the SCREEN SECTION that works on the AXP version.. I'm thinking I must have an old compiler or something. Anyone know what the latest is? Anyone have a kit? Sampsa

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Slightly OT - How to concatenate multi line strings in DEC COBOL

by form＠pdp-11.org.ru

Oleg Safiullin wrote: Sampsa Laine wrote: Turns out I got version COBOL057. Is there something newer out there? COBOL_Compiler_57.zip;1 You have latest one.

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Slightly OT - How to concatenate multi line strings in DEC COBOL

by form＠pdp-11.org.ru

Sampsa Laine wrote: Turns out I got version COBOL057. Is there something newer out there? COBOL_Compiler_57.zip;1

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Slightly OT - How to concatenate multi line strings in DEC COBOL

by sampsa＠mac.com

Turns out I got version COBOL057. Is there something newer out there? Sampsa On 12 Sep 2012, at 18:10, Sampsa Laine wrote: Tried to compile my little program on GORVAX but it has problems with the SCREEN SECTION that works on the AXP version.. I'm thinking I must have an old compiler or something. Anyone know what the latest is? Anyone have a kit? Sampsa

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Slightly OT - How to concatenate multi line strings in DEC COBOL

by sampsa＠mac.com

Tried to compile my little program on GORVAX but it has problems with the SCREEN SECTION that works on the AXP version.. I'm thinking I must have an old compiler or something. Anyone know what the latest is? Anyone have a kit? Sampsa

13 years

Slightly OT - How to concatenate multi line strings in DEC COBOL

by Paul_Koning＠Dell.com

On Sep 12, 2012, at 9:57 AM, Sampsa Laine wrote: By the way, the project I'm working on (just to practice my COBOL + DCL) is a little VMS-based conferencing / email system. Try it by logging in as CBLBRD on CHIMPY. The username / password for the board is hecnet / test. Sampsa I'm trying to remember if DEC ever put out interesting applications that were written in Cobol. I'm not sure. I do remember a friend of mine who wrote an expression parser (RPN generator) in Cobol. Or maybe RPG? I'm not sure that's possible. I do remember that the first release of VAX Notes was written in PL/I and started out as an exercise in learning PL/I for the author (Len Kawell). paul

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Slightly OT - How to concatenate multi line strings in DEC COBOL

by sampsa＠mac.com

By the way, the project I'm working on (just to practice my COBOL + DCL) is a little VMS-based conferencing / email system. Try it by logging in as CBLBRD on CHIMPY. The username / password for the board is hecnet / test. Sampsa

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Slightly OT - How to concatenate multi line strings in DEC COBOL

by sampsa＠mac.com

I figured it out, had to do with the DELIMITED BY SIZE issue - the old buffer was overwriting the whole new one, thus nothing was ever being stored. I added a delimiter literal and it works now, code looks like this if interested (||||) is the delimiter: GetPayload. MOVE "||||" TO Payload. Move " " TO EditLine. PERFORM UNTIL EditLine = "." DISPLAY "> " WITH NO ADVANCING ACCEPT EditLine MOVE Payload TO PreviousPayload STRING PreviousPayload DELIMITED BY "||||" CRLF DELIMITED BY SIZE EditLine DELIMITED BY SIZE "||||" DELIMITED BY SIZE INTO NewPayload END-STRING MOVE NewPayload TO Payload END-PERFORM. DISPLAY "<EOT>". On 12 Sep 2012, at 16:35, Dennis Boone wrote: Nothing seems to happen, however. I assume you don't mean that literally. De

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Slightly OT - How to concatenate multi line strings in DEC COBOL

by drb＠msu.edu

Nothing seems to happen, however. I assume you don't mean that literally. De

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