obb130t@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (07/24/89)
If anyone is interested, I got one response to my query about MSCOBOL. Thank you to Dave Close. Unfortunately I cannot e-mail directly. I enclose the following extract. >I may be the only other news reader with Microsoft COBOL experience under >Xenix. If so, please stay in touch and we can try to help each other. > >Microsoft has told me, via phone call to their support group in Washington, >that COBOL is a dead product. They are not performing any development on it, >not even fixing bugs. There are several which I have merely had to work around. Indirectly, he gave me the answer. The 386 C compiler defaults are incompatible with 286. I had added "cc -M0" to resolve the model diagnostics, and then had to remove "fixhdr -v 3" before it would execute, which finally (somehow) disabled record locking! Dave says: >...I have modified the script to add -M2me to the cc line. This seems to work fine with the fixhdr left in. I have not tested it thoroughly since the experience was enough to convince the customer to migrate to MicroFocus! Bill Gates told me (at a presentation here a few months back) that Microsoft fully supports Unix/Xenix. May I be permitted a gentle chortle? ..david.. -- ///////////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ / David M. Bennett obb130t@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au \ / Demileigh Consulting, 22 Tourello Ave, East Hawthorn 61 3 882 7599 \ < Victorian Red Cross Blood Bank, Balston St, South Melbourne 61 3 616 0353 > \ Unix. The standard everybody wished existed. / \ -- Joke of the Month from DEC. Or was it IBM? / \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\///////////////////////////////////////