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

[John Culleton]

On Friday 13 April 2007 08:19:35 am Roger While wrote:
>  > I think one of the easiest things to do might just use stdin from a pipe
>
> In the current 0.33 prerelease, OC has implemented a couple
> of MF extensions -
> SELECT ...   ASSIGN TO KEYBOARD
> and
> SELECT ...   ASSIGN TO DISPLAY
>
> Both of these automatically set the file type to
> LINE SEQUENTIAL.
>
> The KEYBOARD file is set to stdin.
> The DISPLAY file is set to stdout.
> Of course you can only
> OPEN INPUT ... -> the KEYBOARD
> and
> OPEN OUPUT ... -> the DISPLAY
>
> This means that you can use a Cobol prog as a filter eg.
> (Prog as executable)
> cat something | MYCOBPROG | whatever
> or
> (Prog as module)
> cat something | cobcrun MYCOBPROG | whatever
>
> Note that this also gives CGI possibilities.
>
> Roger
>
>
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This old post raised the potential of using OC as a cgi.bin program.  I have 
two questions:

1. How does this facility differ from ACCEPT/DISPLAY for cgi use?
2. Has anyone actually experimented with using OC as a cgi.bin program using 
the facilities indicated above?

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