We had to change COBRUNTIMEs 10th character to a "W". This was because
HP fixed a bug in COBOL that would allow you to WRITE to a file that was
opened for I-O. The "W" retains the old behavior. Without it programs
blow up with a COBOL file error 48.
 
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Art Bahrs wrote:
>
> Hi Bill,
>    Welcome to the Posting part of the list :)
>
>    Um... only one gotcha when I had my system moved to 5.0 from 4.0...
>    The COBRUNTIME variable needs a variable to be changed to allow your
> existing COBOL stuff to run without having to recompile everything and
> all :)   I think the 10th character needs to be changed to a um... "N" I
> think ???
>
>    I will check :)
> Art Bahrs
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