Re: gnubol: Re: Cobol Compiler Suggested Tasks

[Tim Josling <tej@melbpc.org.au>]

Matthew,

I have done nothing on files at all, as they are not in the
nucleus, so you have a clean slate. The draft standard has a list
of changes at the back so you can see what you are missing. 

Don't forget we can and should borrow code from other free
software. But document where you go it from. For example you may
be able to use the Tiny Cobol implementation as a starting point
(though I think their runtime is GPL not LGPL). There are some
ISAM type implementations floating around too.

Tim Josling


Matthew Vanecek wrote:
> 
> Tim Josling wrote:
> [SNIP]
> >
> > Matthew Vanecek: Runtime routine for FILE IO for sequential file.
> > Note that most of the compilers support 'line sequential' which
> > is not in the standard
> >
> [SNIP]
> 
> This sounds good. I'll look over what you've done already, and see what
> kind of ideas I can come up with.  Also, the latest draft standard is
> available (for free!) for download.  I don't think it's changed much in
> this area, but I'm going to read the I/O section for files and see
> what's up.
> 
> Hmm, I wonder if we could wrangle some type of VSAM fs out of all
> this....that would really rock. :)
> 
> --
> Matthew Vanecek

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