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From: V4039%TEMPLEVM.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu ( Stan Horwitz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Calling Pascal from COBOL -- UGH
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Date: 3 Apr 91 15:02:15 GMT
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  I am new to this list and am not clear yet on whether or not this list
is devoted to a specific version of Pascal.  My question today pertains to
VSPascal on an IBM mainframe.  Since VSPascal has this neato ability to
call cms (operating system) commands from within its program, I would like
to write a vspascal function which could be called from VS COBOL II and
will do the cms command and return the return code to the calling COBOL
program.  Has anyone done this yet. The Pascal program is easy to write,
but I can't seem to get COBOL programs to use this function. My test COBOL
program gives no compile or run-time errors, but also does not do anything
when it calls this Pascal program.

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