[aus.computers] Wierd problem: XENIX 386 + Microsoft COBOL + fixhdr -3

obb130t@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (07/03/89)

In article <6055@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>, obb130t@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes:
> We have a strange problem with XENIX COBOL which Microsoft Australia have not
> (so far)been able to help with...wondering if the net can help.
> 
> Aim: add C subroutines to COBOL, intended to run under Xenix 386.
> 
> Method:
> 	RTFM.  Do it just like so.
> 
> Problem 1.
> 	It doesn't work.  Various diagnostics relating to Memory model, etc.
> 
> Solution 1.
> 	Add -M0 to cc command line in mknewcob.  Compile, link and initial
> 	testing all work fine.  Note that the new COBOL run-time system is
> 	MUCH larger (120K instead of 90K).

Sorry...forgot to mention in my previous posting that until I disabled the
"fixhdr -3" the RTS would not run.  It got treated as a shell script and
generated a strange "missing parenthesis in line 1".  Maybe that's the answer?

Now if I only knew the question...

..david
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