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Re: [open-cobol-list] CALL SYSTEM OR CALL "SYSTEM"
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John R. Culleton |
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Re: [open-cobol-list] CALL SYSTEM OR CALL "SYSTEM" |
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Fri, 5 Jan 2007 11:35:37 -0500 |
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On Friday 05 January 2007 08:45, John R. Culleton wrote:
> I recal that some COBOL variants had a statement like
> CALL "SYSTEM" USING FIELDX
> for passing comand line strings to the CLI. I know I could link in a C
> language module to do this but I just wonderd if there was a built in
> function.
Never mind, found it.
CALL "system" USING "cal".
gotta be lower case "system".
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