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Re: [open-cobol-list] Question about assignment in translated C by OpenC
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John R. Culleton |
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Re: [open-cobol-list] Question about assignment in translated C by OpenCOBOL |
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Mon Nov 7 10:27:15 2005 |
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On Sunday 06 November 2005 08:49 am, henry wang wrote:
> I have soloved this assignment using cob_move(..)
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> >Why do you use packed decimal for this?
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> This is a legacy COBL program written by another peple. I donĀLt know why.
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> I try to translated to C, then make interface with another program.
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> V is for decimal position.
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> Henry
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If the assumed decimal point is to the right of the last digit
then the V is superfluous.
It seems to me you are comfortable with C but not with COBOL.
What is there about the application that requires C? Could the
whole application be done in COBOL?
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