Re: Question on Cobol (Unix) file layouts...

[david.kahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Howard Weatherly <hweatherly@dlis.dla.mil> wrote:

>I must disagree with you on this, COBOL most certainly
>has a USAGE clause and has since it's inception.

Howard,

If you re-read Jon's reply carefully I think you'll agree he could only
have meant that the _code_sample_ did not have a USAGE clause, and
therefore the data items were implicity USAGE DISPLAY. The answer was 100%
correct. I think it's safe to assume that Jon is reasonably familiar with
COBOL's usage of USAGE.

His views on the brevity of COBOL vs. RPG _are_ a little weird, however.
:-)

Dave Kahn, ABB Steward Ltd.


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