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From: ken@rochester.arpa (Ken Yap)
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Subject: Re: Wang VS Cobol to C translator
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Date: Mon, 15-Jun-87 12:58:44 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 15 12:58:44 1987
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Having done some Cobol-Cobol translations in the past (naturally I did
most of the work with a translator), I can tell you it can be worse.
You may have to do data translation if you intend to continue with
existing data. Cobol has a version of discriminated unions. If the
alignments are different on the target machine, well what you have to
do is write a program to read the records and repack the data. Which is
what I did.  Table driven of course, because there were several such
files.

I'd say rewrite the thing from scratch, if you can afford it.

	Ken