Re: gnubol: Free-form problem

[Chad Slaughter <slaught@advancenet.net>]

the free format source  defination is aas follows:

The first six characters are considered part of the normal source line
and may contain cobol src code. Col 1 takes on the role of the indicator
are as follows:
* comment line
/ comment line starting on a new page in the listing file

D or d folloed by space, debugging line
$ special ilne(for exampel directive, conditional compile)
any other character nomrla source line

There are no continuation lines. Continuation of alphanumeric literals is
achieved through concatenation (eg "A" & "B" )

There is no distinction between area A and area B.

Ther is no fixed right margin.
Microfocus restricts the mx line length to 250 single byte characters.
( 125 double-byte characters)

***HERE IS THE ANSWER ***

Comment-entries are only allowed on the same line as the paragraph 
header and must not continue onto anotehr line.


There it the answer micheal.  =)

Its problaby not what you like, but oh well. 
The above is from my micro focus langauge ref book, but referneces the X/Open
std for the free format source defination.

i am trying to find more information I have on the x/open std.
I'll post when i get it.

-- 
Chad Slaughter  -- slaught at advancenet.net

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