I am taking Neil's advice...
We have another group, who are yet unitiated into the glories of the 3K,
and who are looking at connecting their Winsocketed front end to our 3K,
and on the 3K providing their own BSD socketed connection to our objects
and our data. They are not entirely decided between C and COBOL on the
3K. Language preferences aside, the existing application is in COBOL,
and that application's development team (which includes me) knows little
more about the C language than how to spell C. While we are researching
g++ vs. C/iX (opinions and experiences welcome on this issue), we only
have the HP COBOL compiler on our 3Ks (and we are not yet planning on
getting a 918, nor would doing so address our requirement to have the
same compilers on the production 3K). So, COBOL is where we are
invested. Also, learning to program both sockets and C could get messy.
After some searching, I found Neil Harvey's postings on Sockets
programming in COBOL, as well as the libraries that an unknown
benefactor had provided. Since we are required to have the source for
anything that we do not have a license for (in other words, if it is not
a third-party product, such as Adager, Suprtool, etc.), I cannot use the
libraries without the COBOL source. Would the unknown benefactor be
willing to step forward, publically or privately, to either provide
source code, or assistance re-inventing this wheel?
>----------
>From: Neil Harvey[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Saturday, October 25, 1997 1:19 AM
>To: Stigers, Greg ~ AND
>Subject: RE: [HP3000-L] Sockets programming in Cobol
>
>Greg
>
>I really cant remember the name. Also, I've lost the original mail
>messages. Also, even when looking into the library binaries files, I
>cant see any clues. Sorry.
>
>I suggest that you post a notice to the list, saying that you are aware
>that I got them from someone on the list, and could the person step
>forward! That's how I got them, and I don't think it was a secret :)
>
>Regards
>
>Neil
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Stigers, Greg ~ AND [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>> Sent: Friday, October 24, 1997 5:17 PM
>> To: 'Neil Harvey'
>> Subject: RE: [HP3000-L] Sockets programming in Cobol
>>
>> Zowie! This will be a challenge then. I think that it was the COBOL
>> wrappers that our boys would have been most interested in. Did you ever
>> get the name of the original author, or are you not at liberty to reveal
>> your sources (which I can certainly understand, even if it is not what I
>> want to hear)?
>>
>> How about documentation describing the interface to the library? At
>> some level, we have to know what we are reverse engineering.
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