[Info-vax] wrong file format

[Dirk Munk]

Dave Froble wrote:
> On 1/1/2021 10:46 AM, Dirk Munk wrote:
> 
>> Yes indeed. And all those files created by those Cobol programs can only
>> be used by other Cobol programs created by that compiler.
> 
> I've got to challenge this statement.  The files are just data, and many 
> compilers can produce code that could use the data.  Might require some 
> special coding, but, it's possible.
> 
> 

No, the files do not just contain data. They contain indexes, pointers 
etc., and you have to be able to use them.