[Info-vax] Calling $CREPRC in COBOL

Simon Clubley clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Tue Jun 14 08:59:04 EDT 2022


On 2022-06-13, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG <VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote:
> In article <t87tg0$h5a$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>>On 2022-06-11, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG <VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote:
>>>
>>> COBOL is barely a read-only language for me but I was able to see that this
>>> is doable if one DOESN'T disregard system call parameters that one does NOT
>>> understand.
>>>
>>
>>Using COBOL to interface to VMS has been a serious eye-opener for me in
>>reading this thread. I guess no-one is going to be doing even a bare metal 
>>LED blinker in COBOL any time soon... :-)
>
> Bare metal COBOL.  Thankfully, I haven't poured the first beer yet or I'd have
> wasted a good ale, and I'd be cleaning it up from the screen and keyboard.
>

Oh, Brian. :-)

I thought you would have learnt by now not to have anything in your mouth
just in case before you read a post from me. :-)

Simon.

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