Re: [open-cobol-list] Introducing myself...(line numbers)

[John R. Culleton]

On Tuesday 10 April 2007 12:49, Alain Lucari wrote:
> John,
>
> Nothing is "perfect" ... But O-C is the better you can have for
> free or, even, with dollars.
> In a old time I have used M-F and Acu and they are not PERFECT :
> you must correct your program in order to use one or the other.
> O-C try with his flavours to help anybody to compile program writed
> with no_correction : this is too much for me, if you want to use a
> compiler YOU must do what you do for use it.
>
> About five years ago I try to use Tiny (thanks Rildo for his work)
> but, sometimes some programs do'nt compile without any message
> (because the same name in a copy and the working-storage-section,
> most of the times MF and Acu accept that and take what ?)
>
> In a first time, I have used O-C just for discover "where is the
> problem" and after found, correct the mistake and compile with
> tiny. After, I have worked a little with keisuke and explain where
> are some problems for cobol program. Keisuke don't know Cobol but
> is very good in C and I well know cobol and can explain where are
> some problems.
> At this time, I have about 660 programs totalizing 237 000 lines
> running in production with O-C 0-23.19 because I have well tested,
> with PostgreSQL with my own interface, on about 40 PCs.
>
> Seriously, is somedody using NOW Accept/Dispalay at line/column ?
> the worst thing I know.
> If someone is interested I can send my "Eclair" product, really
> better, free and the interface with pg also ...
> BUT you must work a little : free or paying, nothing is without
> a less of work ;-))
>
> Be cool : now line/column is deprecated, use php or java, perhaps
> with some money ... or most work.
>
> Because my bad english (U.S) and the time for write with it,
> I don't post too much, but yours asks are too out_of_date for me.
> But, if you write french, you can post to me in it ... ^-(
>
> Regards,
>
> Alain Lucari (Eurlix)

I have forgotten all my French. Pardonnez moi je vous en prie.

If your "Eclair" will interface COBOL with a more suitable language I 
would be interested.  I already have an interface example from Rildo 
to put Tcl/TK and Cobol together. The difficult part is editing data 
as it is keyed in against a Cobol file. For example, if I am editing 
a customer order, but the customer number I enter is invalid, I want 
immediate notification before work proceeds further. DISPLAY/ACCEPT 
with positioning allows this interactive editing as work proceeds but 
there are obvious visual problems.  The difficulty lies not with 
COBOL but with the other language in use.

All suggestions gratefully accepted.  



-- 
John Culleton
Able Indexing and Typesetting
Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost.
Satisfaction guaranteed. 
http://wexfordpress.com