Re: [open-cobol-list] Stdin/stdout, was Open Cobol Tutorials and other things.

[Alain Lucari]

Le Wed, 3 Oct 2007 09:47:45 -0400
John Culleton <address@hidden> a écrit:

> On Wednesday 03 October 2007 02:41:58 am Roger While wrote:
> > OC also accepts the ACU specific syntax -
> > ACCEPT identifier-1 FROM ENVIRONMENT "QUERY_STRING".
> >
> > Which actually is much more succint.
> >
> > Roger
> 
> Excellent. 
> 
> This differs from TC syntax only by one word.  Therefore cgi-bin
> programs are  almost intechangeable between the two.  I tested the
> TC program and web page  pair phacode.cob/phacode.html provided by
> David Essex and with the one word  modification it ran under OC too.
>  The cgi-bin door is now open. Html can be 
> used for both local and remote access to  COBOL programs.  
> 
> In the program/html page pair the html calls the program rather than
> vice  versa but this is a minor distraction.  
> 
> The other alternative I plan to test is COBOL and tcl/tk.  This is
> effectively  local only but offers some extra flexibility on the
> non-COBOL side. 

I'm interested by the result of your test with tcl/tk. Please, send
me an e-mail when you have some results.

I suppose that you well know that Rildo has made something about that.
 
> 
> Thanks to all who replied. 

Best regards,
-- 
Alain Lucari (Eurlix)