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From: diamond@csl.sony.co.jp (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Two Cobol Questions
Message-ID: <10616@riks.csl.sony.co.jp>
Date: 27 Jul 89 02:18:51 GMT
References: <1989Jul25.145219.22172@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: diamond@riks. (Norman Diamond)
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In article <1989Jul25.145219.22172@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> norvell@csri.toronto.edu (Theodore Stevens Norvell) writes:

>     By the way, I'm not interested so much in responses like
>     ``Compiler x does y'', but rather ``Standard x mandates y'' or
>     ``Standard x prohibits constructs like this because of rule y''.

Surely you'd have no problem buying a copy of the Cobol standard from
the Canadian Standards Association.  It's not as though you were
dependant on the kindness of privileged persons to whom Global
Engineering Documents condescends to sell a draft copy.

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