I think I'm running into a conceptual problem here -- I've taken a recent
example posted here on doing SOCKET I/O within a COBOL program and converted
it to SPL, but there is one *tiny* bugaboo -- the COBOL source defines one
variable as "PIC S9(9) BINARY EXTERNAL"

This is the ever-famous "errno" variable, and I understand how and why it is
"external" to the main [source] of the program you're working upon, but how
exactly does one specify that a VARIABLE is "external" to the
main/outer-block of an SPL program?

[or is doing SOCKET I/O in SPL too much of a headache to be worth it?    The
long term answer to my situation is to re-write the SPL program in C, but
time constraints prohibit that at the moment -- gotta make a 6000+ line SPL
program work WITH "sockets" by the end of the week...]

Tom Emerson
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