Re: Re: Cobol compiler date

On 4/20/2010 7:18 PM, Gordon SCOTT wrote:
> Just scrounge around in the different ".obj" files .... Find the address
> of the characters you want to change. Apply the "ZAP", "VER", "REP" and
> repass IEWL. As far as I can remember. Good luck ! I love the team !
> It's cool not to be alone !

The original problem and solution concerned a load module. I'm 
not sure whether we have object or source code for this compiler.

But it brings back pleasant (?) memories. I was working on a 
project in the sixties that required reading data into a lot of 
variables. The variables were grouped by function, and I decided 
to use a ForTran NAMELIST to do the reading (I had to change the 
I/O routine to read one card ahead, and pass the caller the name 
of the next NAMELIST, if there was one). By looking through the 
I/O routine source, I found that IBM supported alphabetic 
constants in NAMELISTs, but never implemented them in the 
compiler. I wrote a little program that read a list of variable 
names, and the object deck from the compile, and changed the 
variable type to x'0A'. The resulting module read text data just 
fine.



Gerhard Postpischil
Bradford, VT