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

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

Ted,

Yes please do so, very useful. Bear in mind the following

1. Follow GNU coding standards which you can get from www.fsf.org
2. Can you structure the code so that it can be used as a
standalone utility and as a set of routines to call from the
Cobol runtime.
3. C not C++.
4. Licence under the LGPL to allow the above (see www.fsf.org for
details of the LGPL licence)
5. Try and make the code work regardless of the big/little endian
nature of the CPU you are using. 
6. Publish your code as you go, even when rought and incomeplete
(like my compiler:-)).

Sorry about the delay in replying. 

Happy to answer any questions.

Much appreciated,
Tim Josling



"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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