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

[John R. Culleton]

On Monday 09 April 2007 06:54, address@hidden wrote:
> Regarding my last post...I forgot to mention, once I put line
> numbers in, it worked fine. Sorry for any confusion.
>
> address@hidden wrote: Hi! I am Joseph. I used to
> use realia-cobol years ago. Haven't in a long long time. I just got
> open-cobol running on my Ubuntu machine. It was installed from the
> repositories with not a hitch. I ran the sample hello world program
> from the wiki. Just a note, it doesnt have line numbers, so a copy
> paste for me didnt work. (yes I know I need a cobol editor...gonna
> start looking for one..will take any suggestions).
>
Vim works well.

You may also want to install Tiny Cobol. It has screen handling which 
Open does not have yet.  There are also some interesting sample 
programs in the TC distro thas show integration with Tcl-Tk and so 
on.

I use both. 
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