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From: ajz@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (T. Tim Hsu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Cobol
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Date: 31 May 90 02:44:11 GMT
Reply-To: ajz@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (T. Tim Hsu)
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I need to somehow purchase Microsoft Cobol version 1.7 (yes that is 1.7).
I have version 2.2, but I've been asked (commanded) to rebuild a piece of
software that was written in version 1.7.  Normally this would be a simple
recompile to the newer version, but I only have the source code to a single
part of that program (the program is enourmous folks, so rebuilding it is
out of the question.  The part I have is about a megabyte of code and it is
only about 1/3 of the total).  So any changes that I make must be compatable
with the previous stuff (pre-version 2.0 MS Cobol would compile to .obj files
and you would then have to link these files with the proper libraries.  Post-
version 2.0 stuff would both compile and link producing a .int file meaning
that post-ver 2.0 stuff produced interpreted code while pre-ver 2.0 stuff
produced executable code.  I figured it would be the other way around, but
I guess the Fed govt perferred it that way).

What is it?  It's a very old piece of accounting software that is no longer
supported.  Anyone who knows how one could go about downgrading their
software, please speak up.

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