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

[boscagarda-programming]

Mr. Klein,

Thanks for the heads about about tiny cobol. Like I mentioned right now I am doing a web interface (in php to my dismay) that I would like to convert to cobol. So screen section isnt that huge to me. Though eventually i imagine I might want it. I dont know anything about C so I couldnt do it. But its good to know tiny cobol is missing so much stuff (I thought I had read that) so I dont use it. My interests are of course to use the more modern cobol since I will be writing new code I am not bound to a particular setup. (Not bringing mainframe data over etc).

Thanks kindly and best regards,
Joseph James Frantz

Bill Klein <address@hidden> wrote:
>  John,
>   Is there a good reason that no matter what anyone posts to the OpenCOBOL
> list, you always refer them to TinyCOBOL (the "static" - not-growing -
>  COBOL
> compiler?
>
> I know that neither are "vendor" products, but your posts to THIS list seem
> inappropriate to me.
>
> If you want to try to get an ongoing TinyCOBOL list, that's fine.  It
> wouldn't even bother me too much if you posted a note occasionally telling
> OpenCOBOL people that such a list exists.
>
> HOWEVER, this is not (to me) the place to reply to every note with a 
>   "Try TinyCOBOL (and ignore the fact that it is missing many '85 Standard
> as well as all the new '02 Standard stuff - that is available in OpenCOBOL,
> but you WILL get a full Screen Section - even though that wasn't what you
> were asking about" 
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: address@hidden 
> > [mailto:address@hidden On 
> > Behalf Of John R. Culleton
> > Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 6:52 AM
> > To: address@hidden; 
> >
>  address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: [open-cobol-list] Introducing myself...(line numbers)
> > 
> > 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. 
> > -- 
> > John Culleton
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