Re: [GNU-COBOL] SCREENS

[Christopher Clark <compudata@cadvision.com>]

"David L. Nicol" wrote:

> In practice, are the cobol-provided terminal io primitives
> still used much, or are front-ends taken over by GUIs?  Or
> is a custom GUI the first thing a vendor adds?

    Vendors usually add custom GUI code, but the ones I've looked at acted as
though the GUI screen was 80 fixed-width columns by 24 rows, and used the same
Screen Section as the character interface.  Now I don't want to go off on a rant
about this...  :-)

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