Re: [Fwd: gnubol: Record delimiter clause and parse order]

[Ralph Jones <leclay@bignet.net>]

Mr. Seward,

Thanks for your response.  This sort of thing is for the entire active group.  I'm just an interested onlooker.  Unfortunately I only have enough time to read the group messages.

Regards,
Ralph Jones

"Theodore J. Seward, Jr." wrote:

> Ralph,
>
> I got on the gnubol mail list to watch the status of the GNU COBOL.  I saw your comments on VBS (Variable Blocked Spanned) Records.  I've dealt with the file off and on over the past 20+
> years (assembler, cobol, PL/1, etc.).  It would be easy for me to give you a set of I/O routines to read / write the IBM variable block record types in C.  Their main use would be to
> convert files being FTP'ed to or from an IBM mainframe (I doubt people would use this format unless they had to).  If you would like, I could package it as a batch utility that could be
> used to convert files to or from this format, kind of a bridge.
>
> If I can be of any help in this regard, please let me know.  Of course, the routine and/or utility would have the free software GPL license on them.
>
> Good Luck - Ted Seward


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