Re: gnubol: The many different types of numbering systems used in Cobol.

[Boris <bpkprsnl@erols.com>]

Charlie,

Nice to see you.

Why Burrows instead of Burroughs?

I've worked on pretty much every piece of hardware Burroughs ever made, TC500, L's,
B700 through B6800.  I had completely forgotten about that digit math extension to
the Burroughs COBOL.  Since this isn't really a part of the standard, I would
suspect your best bet to get it, would be to wait until the standard version is
finished and then write your extension for it.  I think the digit math would be a
real problem.  Storage should be fairly easy as long as you records end on a
word/byte boundary as appropriate.  That reminds me; doesn't the Burroughs COBOL
require that group items fit within a word boundary and that all 01's end on a word
boundary.  Wouldn't it also add slack bytes to 77's?  Basically converting all the
77's to 03 as part of an implicit 01?


Anyway, stay tuned.

Charlie Ebert wrote:

<snip>

> Now, why am I writing this message to the GNU cobol folks?
> If this project is to have impact upon current COBOL users we have to support
> each of these version's
> I've talked about.
>


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