Re: [open-cobol-list] opencobol and COPY THRU syntax

[Bill Klein]

I didn't reply to this when first posted.  It is interesting that this NCR
syntax is "sort-of" like an IBM extension - also available with Micro Focus.
See:

 http://publibfp.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/BOOKS/IGY3LR40/8.1.1 

Personally, I think that this is a "little used" feature of both the IBM and
the Micro Focus compilers, but it does exist outside the NCR compiler.

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> On Friday 25 April 2008 12:06:04 pm Ian Moon wrote:
> > Hi... I'm pretty new to cobol. Basically I'm trying to get some
> > legacy programs running with opencobol on linux from NCR System
> > 3000 - NCR Cobol 85.
> > The first issue I've encountered is with the COPY instruction.
> >
> > I could get the following instruction to work:
> >
> >     COPY FUN-LIB.
> >
> > However I get compilation errors when trying to copy in a range of
> > code:
> >
> >     COPY FUN-LIB, 025000 THRU 025999.
> > or
> >     COPY FUN-LIB, 025000 THROUGH 025999.
> >
> > Is this supported? Is there another instruction or way to bring
> > code into a program from another file? I haven't been able to find
> > a list of supported instructions.
> >
> > Thanks for you help
> >
> > Ian
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> Faced with this problem I would simply bring the code in via 
> an editor 
> like Vim. Open the program in one vim window, the source for the copy 
> text in another and cut and paste. Alternatively copy the file 
> contaiing the needed text to another file name such as copied.cbl, 
> then edit that file so that it contains just the needed lines. Then 
> copy copied.cbl into the main file in the usual way. 
> 
> I have not encountered a "copy by range" facility before so it may be 
> a proprietary extension. 
> 
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