Info-IBMPC@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL ("Info-IBMPC Digest") (04/06/91)
Info-IBMPC Digest Tue, 2 Apr 91 Volume 91 : Issue 76
Today's Editor:
Gregory Hicks - Rota Spain <GHICKS@WSMR-Simtel20.Army.Mil>
Today's Topics:
DescView/X
alignment diskettes (V91 #50)
WP 5.1 Hard Carriage Returns (V91 #63) (2 msgs)
What kind of hard drives do I have?? (V91 #63)
NUMLOCK Key - turning on/off (V91 #64) (2 msgs)
memory managers
PS/2 2nd HD
Write Protecting Sub-directories and Files
Capturing Graphics Screens
Today's Queries:
Controlling CTRL-ALT-DELETE from a Batch File
PIC, GIF, PCX <-> IMG
Math Coprocesser for AT model 5170
Getting OKIDATA 193+ to go Online
Omnitronix VideoStream-VCR Tape Backup System info wanted
Question about LAN Manager and OS2
ROM Upgrades for Toshiba 1340/1350 Printers?
Speakers for IBM-PC's and compatibles
COBOL Compiler for PC Wanted
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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 91 12:30:00 EST
From: Rick Beebe <BEEBE%YALEMED.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: DescView/X
>I will be in charge of setting up a SUN Sparc station with a number of
>[text deleted]
>... Deskview/X .....
I've been rather disturbed by all the hoopla that Desqview/X has been
getting, since it is, still, an unreleased product. The trade mags have
been raving about it for well over a year now, and I see people
recommending it left and right. (in a similar vein, PC Week just ran an
article telling us how wonderful Wordperfect 6.0 is going to be.
Scheduled release date: 2nd quarter 1992. Sorry, flame off).
Anyway, I spent quite a while talking with the folks at Quarterdeck at
Networld. Desqview/X is currently scheduled for release in the 2nd
quarter of this year. We'll see. It does appear to work, and from what
I saw it actually will be as wonderful as they say. A little disturbing
for any VMS sites, however, it won't initially be able to run
DECwindows applications (of course, DEC is switching to Motif, so...)
In order to get all the best goodies (running DOS in windows, etc),
you'll need a 386 (there's a chart in the back of that booklet). Get
gobs of memory while you're at it. It will run over Novell or with
FTP's software for TCP/IP access. Both of those are, of course,
separate.
The user portion will cost about as much as regular Desqview, say
somewhere $200-300. If you want to be able to port X applications to
DOS, you'll need their developers kit which will be about $1000.
Rick Beebe (203) 785-4566
Biomedical Computing Unit
Yale University School of Medicine
333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06514
BEEBE@YALEMED.BITNET
beebe@biomed.med.yale.edu
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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1991 13:47:04 PST
From: George_C._Burkitt.El_Segundo@xerox.com
Subject: alignment diskettes (V91 #50)
>Date: Thu, 28 Feb 91 11:56:32 GMT
>From: Peter Keenan <PKEENAN@IRLEARN.BITNET>
>are they likely to identify/ realign those drives ...
No, the problem of drive head alignment is a mechanical one; it needs
to be realigned physically. The diskettes will tell you what type of
misalignment there is and when you have corrected it. They are what
you need to know when the job is needed and when it has been
satisfactorily completed..
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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 91 08:19:30 MST
From: d bear <IDDWB%ASUACAD.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: Hard Carriage Returns (V91 #63)
In Info-IBMPC Digest V91 #63, Dennis M. Price
<dprice@caen.engin.umich.edu> asked about taking HRT's out of a
document so that WordPerfect would format it correctly.
The problem you have is really simple to solve -- but difficult to
get right.. the reason is that you will want to leave some hard
returns in you document.. for example the double hard return at the end
of a paragraph or between lines formatted that way. since this is
captured text you will also have a lot of spaces in the document.
The first thing to do after retreiving the file in WP is to to a
search and replace for all occurrence of a Hrt and spaces -- you will
have to look and see what kind of spaces are insert for tabs at
paragraph beginnings -- maybe 5 to 8 spaces. Search for them and
replace them with an extended ascii char tab combination. You can
generate extended ascii chars by holding the alt key down and typing in
the numeric keypad the number of the char.. I use alt 225 becuase its
easy to remember.
After this your document will be formmatted with the ascii char/tab
combo at the end of each paragraph.
Then you can do a search and replace on all Hrt's, only replace them
with a space.
Your document will now have all the Hrt's removed. Then you can
search and replace the ascii char you previous inserted with a Hrt..
this will reformat the paragraph structure.
This will not handle all the situtations where the your document may
be strangely formatted, but it will cut through most of the
reformatting chore.. Hope this helps
D Bear
ASU COPP ext 8257
... the only Bear on campus ...
IDDWB@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU
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Date: Monday, 25 Mar 1991 09:47:10 EST
From: m11805@mwvm.mitre.org (Ted McMichael)
Subject: WP 5.1 Hard Carriage Returns
In a message dated Wed, 13 Mar 91 11:57:22 EST, that appeared in
Info-IBMPC Digest on Tue, 19 Mar 91, Volume 91:Issue 63; Dennis M.
Price wrote the following about: Hard Carriage Returns
> I have a question: I frequently capture or download text files over
> a modem which I would like to incorporate for various reasons into
> WordPerfect 5.1. Is there any way to strip off the Hard Carraige
> Returns from the DOS text file so that WordPerfect can format the
> document properly??
Dennis,
The most obvious way is to use the Text In capability. To do this
you would utilize the following steps:
Ctrl-F5 Text In/Out
1 (or T) DOS Text
3 (or e) Retrieve (CR/LF to [SRt] in HZone)
filename of "Document to be retrieved:"
That should work for you. However there are other ways to do
this. You could create a macro that makes three Replacement passes
through your text. On the first pass, you would replace all occur-
rences of two Hard Returns with some unique set of characters (like
#$%). On the second pass, you would replace all remaining [HRt] codes
with a single blank space. Then finally on the third pass, you would
replace your unique codes (#$%) with two hard returns to once again
establish your paragraph breaks.
Hope this helps!
Ted McMichael
Phone: 703-883-7408 Fax: 703-883-6436
Internet: Ted@MWUNIX.MITRE.ORG Prodigy: HGXR83A
US Mail: MITRE, 7525 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA 22102-3481
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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1991 14:23:55 PST
From: George_C._Burkitt.El_Segundo@xerox.com
Subject: What kind of hard drives do I have?? (V91 #63)
>Date: Sun, 10 Mar 91 22:54:29 CST
>From: "Martin A. Tippin" <S088682%UMRVMA.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Are you sure that the controller you now have won't support the HD
floppies? In any case, the old controller part type identifies what
kind of hard disk drives it supports, if you talk to the sales person
when you order the new one. Or you can check the hard dsk drives
for their model type number; if it doesn't include an 'R', it's
probably not RLL, and it isn't IDE if you have two cables going to the
drive. So it's either ST506/MFM or ESDI, with the odds being 100:1
in favor of MFM.
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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 91 08:36:28 EST
From: "J. F. Maglio" <JM%SLOAN.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
Subject: NUMLOCK Key - turning on/off (V91 #64)
I sent a solution privately but for the rest of the subscribers, there
is a utility published in PC Magazine, Volume 10, Number 7 called
TOGGLE. TOGGLE extends beyond the NUMLOCK key to include toggling the
CAPS-LOCK and SCROLL-LOCK keys.
TOGGLE
Command
Jeff Prosise 1988 No. 10 (Utilities)
Purpose: Provides a software toggle and an on-screen report of the
states of the CapsLock, NumLock, and ScrollLock keys.
Format: TOGGLE [+c|-c] [+n|-n] [+s|-s]
Remarks: Entered without any parameters, TOGGLE simply reports the
current status of the three toggle keys. The c (CapsLock), n
(NumLock), and s (ScrollLock) parameters may be added on the TOGGLE
command line to change the state of the specified key(s). A + (plus)
sign preceding a parameter toggles that key on; a - (minus) sign forces
that key off. The optional parameters may be entered singly or in any
combination and order, and in upper or lower case. Requested parameter
changes are processed before TOGGLE issues its on-screen report.
Entering TOGGLE with any unrecognized parameter (/H or ?, for example)
produces an error message that displays the correct syntax.
With 83-key PC and XT keyboards, which lack status LEDs, TOGGLE
eliminates the need to determine the states of the CapsLock, NumLock,
and ScrollLock keys by trial and error.
Owners of "compatible" 84-key keyboards often find that their
status LEDs get out-of-sync with the true states of the toggle keys.
This condition arises when an LED-equipped keyboard is matched with an
XT BIOS design, which lacks provisions for updating the indicators when
a program rather than a keystroke changes the toggle-key state. TOGGLE
can be used to restore the synchronization, which will be retained as
long as only keystrokes are used to change the toggle keys' status.
The BIOS interface for the current 101-key (Enhanced) keyboard
causes the machine to boot up with the NumLock state on. All previous
keyboards have provided the opposite default condition. Including the
line
TOGGLE -n
in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file will cause the NumLock key to boot up in
the off state when using the Enhanced keyboard.
100 REM -- BASIC PROGRAM TO CREATE toggle.COM
110 OPEN "toggle.COM" AS #1 LEN = 1
120 FIELD #1,1 AS A$
130 CHECKSUM = 0
140 FOR I = 1 TO 43
150 LINESUM = 0
155 PRINT ".";
160 FOR J = 1 TO 8
170 READ BYTE
180 CHECKSUM = CHECKSUM + BYTE
190 LINESUM = LINESUM + BYTE
200 IF (BYTE < 256) THEN LSET A$ = CHR$(BYTE)
210 PUT #1
220 NEXT J
230 READ LINECHECK
240 IF LINECHECK <> LINESUM THEN PRINT "Error in Line";280 + 10 * I
250 NEXT I
260 CLOSE
270 IF CHECKSUM = 28071 THEN PRINT "Successful Completion!" : END
280 PRINT "COM file is not valid!" : END
290 DATA 233, 188, 0, 84, 79, 71, 71, 76, 802
300 DATA 69, 32, 49, 46, 48, 32, 40, 99, 415
310 DATA 41, 32, 49, 57, 56, 56, 32, 90, 413
320 DATA 105, 102, 102, 32, 67, 111, 109, 109, 737
330 DATA 117, 110, 105, 99, 97, 116, 105, 111, 860
340 DATA 110, 115, 32, 67, 111, 46, 13, 10, 504
350 DATA 80, 67, 32, 77, 97, 103, 97, 122, 675
360 DATA 105, 110, 101, 32, 254, 32, 74, 101, 809
370 DATA 102, 102, 32, 80, 114, 111, 115, 105, 761
380 DATA 115, 101, 13, 10, 36, 26, 13, 10, 324
390 DATA 85, 115, 97, 103, 101, 58, 32, 32, 623
400 DATA 84, 79, 71, 71, 76, 69, 32, 91, 573
410 DATA 43, 99, 124, 45, 99, 93, 32, 91, 626
420 DATA 43, 110, 124, 45, 110, 93, 32, 91, 648
430 DATA 43, 115, 124, 45, 115, 93, 13, 10, 558
440 DATA 36, 13, 10, 32, 32, 32, 32, 67, 254
450 DATA 97, 112, 115, 76, 111, 99, 107, 32, 749
460 DATA 32, 32, 58, 32, 32, 36, 32, 32, 286
470 DATA 32, 32, 78, 117, 109, 76, 111, 99, 654
480 DATA 107, 32, 32, 32, 32, 58, 32, 32, 357
490 DATA 36, 32, 32, 32, 32, 83, 99, 114, 460
500 DATA 111, 108, 108, 76, 111, 99, 107, 32, 752
510 DATA 58, 32, 32, 36, 79, 110, 13, 10, 370
520 DATA 36, 79, 102, 102, 13, 10, 36, 184, 562
530 DATA 64, 0, 142, 192, 252, 190, 129, 0, 969
540 DATA 172, 60, 32, 116, 251, 60, 13, 116, 820
550 DATA 63, 60, 43, 116, 16, 60, 45, 116, 519
560 DATA 12, 180, 9, 186, 78, 1, 205, 33, 704
570 DATA 184, 1, 76, 205, 33, 172, 36, 223, 930
580 DATA 180, 16, 60, 83, 116, 12, 180, 32, 679
590 DATA 60, 78, 116, 6, 180, 64, 60, 67, 631
600 DATA 117, 223, 128, 124, 254, 43, 117, 7, 1013
610 DATA 38, 8, 38, 23, 0, 235, 193, 246, 781
620 DATA 212, 38, 32, 38, 23, 0, 235, 184, 762
630 DATA 180, 9, 186, 3, 1, 205, 33, 180, 797
640 DATA 9, 186, 121, 1, 205, 33, 180, 64, 799
650 DATA 232, 29, 0, 180, 9, 186, 142, 1, 779
660 DATA 205, 33, 180, 32, 232, 17, 0, 180, 879
670 DATA 9, 186, 161, 1, 205, 33, 180, 16, 791
680 DATA 232, 5, 0, 184, 0, 76, 205, 33, 735
690 DATA 186, 185, 1, 38, 132, 38, 23, 0, 603
700 DATA 116, 3, 186, 180, 1, 180, 9, 205, 880
710 DATA 33, 195, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 228
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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 91 19:23:35 GMT
From: Bob Eager <rde@ukc.ac.uk>
Subject: NUMLOCK Key - turning on/off (V91 #64)
The NUM LOCK key is NOT electrically different from the other keys. It
is treated differently by the BIOS, which simply flips the NUM LOCK
status bit (and light) each time a keypress is detected (actually, on
the first key 'make' code after a 'break' code).
You can make NUM LOCK transmit a new code in two main ways. First, you
can intercept the keyboard interrupt, and map the NUM LOCK key scan
code to another before passing it on to the BIOS. Alternatively, if
your system has the BIOS facility for key mapping (all PS/2s and many
modern BIOSes) you can use that instead. Both methods are reasonably
portable (the latter obviously only to those systems that have a
suitable BIOS).
The first method is used by PD:<MSDOS.KERMIT>NM100.ARC. I tried this
program but had a few problems with it (can't remember what now). It
also doesn't come with source. So I wrote my GOLD utility, which uses
the second method; you can find that in PD:<MSDOS.KEYBOARD>GOLD.ZIP; it
does check whether your BIOS supports it and gives a message if not. It
also allows the function to be turned on and off. I will be uploading
an enhanced version soon. Source in MASM is included.
Bob Eager
University of Kent, UK
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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 91 08:23:00 CST
From: CANTRELL%VUCTRVAX.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu
Subject: memory managers
Are you sure that Windows does multitasking? I was under the
impression that Windows allowed for context switching.
Alan
INTERNET -- cantrell@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu
BITNET -- CANTRELL@VUCTRVAX
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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 91 11:54:00 EST
From: Rick Beebe <BEEBE%YALEMED.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: PS/2 2nd HD
>Microchannel cards don't use setup disks...they're (for the most part)
>``self-configuring''. I'd say your best alternative is to go with the
>external SCSI setup.
>___________________________________________________________________
>| Timothy Buck | |
>| timbuck@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu (preferred) | Virginia Tech |
>| OR jbuck@vtssi.vt.edu | Blacksburg,VA |
>`--------------------------------------------------+---------------'
Au contraire. Every microchannel card that I've ever installed has come
with a setup disk of sorts. They always need to be copied to the
reference disk which you then use to do the actual setup. Microchannel
doesn't promise self-configuration--it promises switchless
configuration.
Rick Beebe (203) 785-4566
Biomedical Computing Unit
Yale University School of Medicine
333 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06514
BEEBE@YALEMED.BITNET
beebe@biomed.med.yale.edu
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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 91 15:51:38 GMT
From: "L.Borthwick" <gxsx01@udcf.glasgow.ac.uk>
Subject: Write Protecting Sub-directories and Files
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.digest, Javier A. Herrera <CMSEI53@EOVUOV11.bitnet>
writes:
> Does anybody if there is a program around that make a sub-directory
>and files belonging to it be protected from erasures??? I mean,
>read-only files and subdirectory. I've trying just with the sub-
>directory entry itself, changing the attribute byte, but it seems not
>to work..:(
You could always try to hide the sub-directory, use Norton or PCTools,
etc. this would make it difficult for ordinary users to damage the
files.
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Date: 25 March 91, 20:43:43 UPM
From: ACDL004@SAUPM00.BITNET
Subject: Capturing Graphics Screens
Ernie:
I wrote a simple program that gives you a graphics display of what
you need in text. You can run this and capture the screen as you want.
The program is written in Quick BASIC. First create an Ascii file of
data with the format
" STRING",colornumber
" STRING",colornumber
for each line.
Here goes the program.
n%=25
DIM line$(n%), fcol(n%)
CLS
INPUT " Enter name of the data file : ",file$
OPEN file$ FOR INPUT AS #1
i%=1
WHILE NOT EOF(1)
INPUT #1, line$(i%), fcol(i%)
i%=i%+1
WEND
CLOSE(1)
SCREEN 9 ' You can select your screen mode
FOR j%=1 TO i%
COLOR fcol(j%)
PRINT line$(j%)
NEXT
SLEEP(10) ' Select your time in seconds to capture the screen
END
An example Data file is
" This is a Testing",12
" This is the second line",3
" This is the 5th line",15
" This is blue",1
I hope this will be helpful to you.
Regards
Nasir Haniffa
ACDL004@SAUPM00.BITNET
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Subject: Today's Queries:
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1991 10:17 EDT
From: PHANTOM <BRPLESHEK%MIAVX2.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: CTRL-ALT-DELETE
I'm writing a program and executing it by a .bat file and would like to
disable the CTRL-ALT-DEL combination while the program is executing and
then enable again after the completion of the program. Any help would
be appreciated!!!
thanx
Brian Pleshek
brpleshek@miavx0.bitnet
brpleshek@miavx9.bitnet
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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 91 23:27 GMT +1
From: Zarko Berberski<EBERBERS@yubgef51.bitnet>
Subject: PIC, GIF, PCX <-> IMG
Does anybody have exact formats of PIC ,GIF, PCX and IMG or source
for conversion of PIC, GIF, PCX to/from IMG. I would appreciate
anything in human-readable (i.e. not just executable ) form.
Zarko Berberski
EBERBERS@YUBGEF51.bitnet
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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 91 16:50:41 EST
From: William French <GUIDO@mitvma.mit.edu>
Subject: Math Coprocesser for AT model 5170
When installing a math coprocesser in an AT model 5170, I encountered a
strange problem. When the coprocesser is installed, the AT won't boot.
If the coprocesser is removed, the AT boots normally. We tried three
different coprocessers with identical results. We also tried to install
them in an identical model AT, with, again, identical results. The
Technical Reference does not indicate that we need to set any switches.
The specific symptoms that are evident when we power on the AT with the
coprocesser installed are: The monitor stays inactive (white), and the
AT hangs somewhere in the initial hardware check. The power and hard
disk indicator lights do go on, but the rest never happens. Has anyone
on this list encountered a similar problem?
Bill French
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Date: 25 Mar 91 17:00:00 EDT
From: "DRCV06::OPER1" <oper1%drcv06.decnet@drcvax.af.mil>
Subject: Getting OKIDATA 193+ to go Online
I have an OKIDATA printer that just won't go on-line. If I
disconnect the parallel cable the printer comes on-line. But as soon
as I reconnect the cable the printer goes off-line and won't come
on-line. It doesn't make any difference whether the PC is on or off.
I have tried another cable but to no avail. This printer has no serial
connection.
Glenn.
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Date: 25 Mar 91 16:59:00 EDT
From: "DRCV06::OPER1" <oper1%drcv06.decnet@drcvax.af.mil>
Subject: Omnitronix VideoStream-VCR Tape Backup System info wanted
Has any tried/bought a VideoStream-VCR Tape Backup System from
OMNITRONIX, INC. I have a VCR so I thought it might be good to use
for backups. The ad says a 2 hour tape can hold 90megs. I was
wondering if someone had bought one and what they think about it.
Glenn.
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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 91 15:42:24 CET
From: YOON%UNICC.BITNET@pucc.PRINCETON.EDU
Subject: Question about LAN Manager and OS2
Hello,
I would like to find out if anyone had any experience with running LAN
Manager on OS21.2. We are having great difficulty with 1.2 and Lan
Man, but can't figure out why. It is SUPPOSED to work ... Any help
would be appreciated.
Steven Yoon World Health Organization YOON@UNICC
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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1991 11:38:14 -0500
From: Glenn Shorrock <R23754@UQAM>
Subject: ROM Upgrades for Toshiba 1340/1350 Printers?
Does anyone know of a source for new ROMs to upgrade Toshiba 1340/1350
printers to the newer Toshiba 351 functionality? I've had a lot of
success upgrading an Epson FX80 printer to FX86e functionality using
Dresselhaus's replacement ROMs and I'd love to be able to do the same
thing for our Toshiba printers.
Glenn Shorrock
Math Dept.
Universite du Quebec a Montreal
Internet: shorrock @ info.uqam.ca
Bitnet: R23754 @ uqam.bitnet
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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 91 14:45:36 est
From: "Dylan Kaufman" <morgan@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
Subject: Speakers for IBM-PC's and compatibles
Hi,
I am interested in building a device which can function as a speaker
and a microphone for an ibm-pc or compatibles. I have seen a couple of
files around which give information on such endeavors, but haven't been
able to find everything I need. There is a file out there somewhere
which I can't find called SNDEXPLN.???. I am sure there is also other
information on building play back and sampling devices out there
someplace.
Anything which can assist me with this will be greatly appreciated.
Please repond by email, and I will post a summary to the digest.
Thank you in advance,
-<>Dylan<>- MA EMT-M, CA EMT-1A, BEMCo 107
Dylan Kaufman Major in Computer Science
morgan@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
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Date: MON, MAR 25 1991 15:35:05
From: Keith J Cunningham <KC5314%BROCK1P.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu>
Subject: COBOL Compiler for PC Wanted
A friend of mine is currently writing source code for Instructional
software. His language of choice is COBOL since he heels he knows this
language best. I have tried to convince him to learn C, but to no
avail.
He insists on using COBOL. This leads to another problem, he now needs
a compiler for the PC. Does anyone know where he might be able to
obtain a compiler other than buying one through Microsoft, preferably
PD or shareware. I am sure he will have no problem registering the
Software after a trial period. Any comments or advice will be greatly
appreciated.
Thanx
Keith Cunningham
SUNY College @ Brockport
KC5314@BROCK1P.BITNET
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