In article <[log in to unmask]>, Michael Baier
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>In that case, the compiler would at least report the error.
>In my case, we have to work thru "strange behavior".
>Same with COMP-Fields KSAM-FILEs or FLAT-Files.
>
>Alot of trial and error.
>HP-Management incl the famous Winston, had no idea how good MPE and HP-
>Cobol was.
>
>Michael
>
>

Not trying to rub salt into wounds, but for those of you who haven't
selected your New COBOL yet, ACUCOBOL supports virtually all the HP
COBOL extensions, and their VISION file system is almost identical to
KSAM. So much so that we find we don't normally have to change anything
in the COBOL file handling to switch from KSAM to VISION. However I'm
not sure if duplicate keys are supported in the current release or are
due soon. No doubt someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

Alan
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