Cobol

Perform forever
Does anyone have a favourite way of specifying that a PERFORM should continue indefinitely? Consider the following code: move low-values to wpppauthorblurb perform until 1 = 2 perform get-input if itsa-tag OR finished exi... 13 Sep 2005 00:27

Conversion (*.dat) to a readable format
Hi, I have to convert some Data Cobol files to a readable format(Excel, txt, ...). The problem is that those files are not editable under NotePad or a text editor ... (not a sequential file by line). Plz could you help me, i am a biginner in COBOL :-(( 10x ... 5 Sep 2005 19:36

COBOL as CGI
I have seen examples of linking COBOL programs to TclTk. Does anyone have an example of using a COBOL program for a cgi program in conjunction with html? -- John Culleton Able Indexers and Typesetters ... 8 Sep 2005 17:18

OT: Katrina's Wrath
I know this is off topic, but I think this group is compassionate enough to excuse it this one time. I just want to extend thoughts and prayers to everyone along the Gulf coast who has been affected by this catastrophe. Being a resident of South Florida and having lived through two direct htis from category 2 ... 13 Sep 2005 20:06

Reading Mouse Location in UNIX via Emulator
I am using a terminal emulation program that lets the mouse send its x & y coordinates when one of the buttons is pushed. For example, using cat -v and executing some simple mouse clicks at row 1, column 1 in the emulator, I get thoe following escape sequences: ^[[M !! (left mouse button) ^[[M"!! ( right mou... 24 Aug 2005 07:45

Cobol Compiler
Does anyone know if there is a compiler for Cobol that creates independently executable programs, e.g. that do not need to be run using a runtime environment? Can be a commercial one. TIA. ... 25 Aug 2005 05:36

recover data file format from pgm file ?
Hi everybody, I have to recover cobol data files from a software... These files are from acucorp and i used VUTIL32 -rebuild to reindex them so, if i understood what i read, they do not contain deleted record anymore. with VUTIL32 -extract, i obtain a file format very near to be comprehensive, except for num... 10 Aug 2005 18:40

data conversion
Hi all, Is there anyone who know something about *.dat, *.id and *.x file formats? Is it possible that it is Cobol data? Any tool which could convert it to ASCII files? Thanks in advance! Anabella ... 8 Aug 2005 17:16

SCREEN SECTION and ACCEPT ecxamples.
All my COBOL manuals and books wre written before screen handling became standardized. I can find good examples of displaying pretty thing on the screen but none showing how you ACCEPT data in a SCREEN environment. In addition to the mechanics of same there are some gotchas when the whole screen is accepted at once... 7 Aug 2005 18:29

Telecommute Contracting
I'm curious - is this even a viable option these days? I'm looking to supplement my income (and solidy the kids' education funds, etc) with some additional work. Is it a pipe dream to imagine there are companies out there that are willing to pay a reduced rate for "off-hour" telecommute contracts? Any assistan... 27 Jul 2005 14:09