Re: ? CTMS COBOL:

Jon Paris wrote:

<<snip>>

>  I also don't understand
> why they are making a big deal out of writing the source to tape - should be a
> simple matter to write a quick-n-dirty to write all the source to a single 
>file
> on tape with some kind of inter-file marker, then read that tape on the 400
> generating  the individual source files.  It's not difficult on most systems 
>to
> do something like this.
>

Jon,

For those that do not shudder at executing something from a S/36EE, what whould 
be
the chances of IBM expanding FROMLIBR to support 10 character names?

This would permit someone the ability to create a physical file, with member
delimiters, which could be restored properly (subtypes and all) without ANY 
"Q&D"
programs.

Just a thought.

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