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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 12:00:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 12 12:00:00 1985
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> Before purchasing GEM for an IBM-PC I've been trying to find out whether
> I can access GEM from within COBOL applications (specifically the Application
> Environment Services (AES) subroutine library). So far I've met with brick
> walls from all my enquiries.
> 
> Does anyone out there know if (and how) I can get around this - possibly
> by using C to actually get at the GEM goodies? I'd be grateful for any ideas
> or past experiences,
> 
> 	Thanks in advance,
> 	Paul Middlehurst
> 
> UUCP:	...!seismo!mcvax!ukc!reading!cybavax!paul

I attended the GEM ISV Seminar some months back.  GEM comes with bindings
for linking C and Pascal programs to AES subroutines.  They don't support
every compiler that's available, but they do support their format, and
Microsoft's format at least.  If you can call C from COBOL, you should be
able to build a C function that accesses the AES subroutines, and then
call the C function from COBOL.