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From: Pete Dashwood on 3 Jul 2008 06:50


"SeaSideSam" <Sam(a)SeaSide> wrote in message
news:32f$486c296c$6214c817$30671(a)ALLTEL.NET...
> Refs: RM/COBOL V6.5 for UNIX and Win95 Users Guide
> RM/COBOL V6.5 for UNIX and Win95 Language Reference Manual
>
> Pete.
>
> 1) There is no mention of 'ISAM' files in the above refs.
> 2) Recognized file structures are
> a) sequential
> b) relative record
> c) indexed
> 3) 'Alternate-record keys' can be used in 'Read' and 'Start' statements.
> Standard
> rules of the 'Read' and 'Start' statements apply.
> 4) My Vista machine crapped out for the 7th time in 6 months the other
> day, and I
> am now in the process of building an XP machine and will not install
> RMC until
> I get back on XP. I will be available for testing at that time.
>
> sss
>

Thanks Sam.

In this context, ISAM and Indexed are interchangeable, even though
technically they are not... :-)

Hope you get things sorted with your system. I find XP to be excellent and
even better since installing SP3. I approached this update with fear and
trepidation expecting everything to fall apart... :-) (tribute to MS track
record...) To my surprise it installed effortlessly and NOTHING reacted to
it. I have NEVER had a BSOD or hang since running this machine. (It has 2GB
of main memory... Lack of memory and continual memory leakage seems to be a
frequent problem with MS apps.)

Since installing .NET and running apps that use it, I have had no problems.
I'm totally sold on the DotNET framework now. I won't be installing Vista
and will leapfrog to Windows 7 64 bit. If that turns out to be a dog, I'll
move to Linux.

Pete.
--
"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."


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