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Re: Cobol: can you create a new Fixed Binary file?
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Tom Brandt <[log in to unmask]>
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Tom Brandt <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 9 Oct 2003 16:41:25 -0400
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This doesn't really answer your question, but for files other than fixed
ASCII files I will either build the file outside the program and set a file
equation, or call file intrinsics inside the program instead of using
standard COBOL I/O.

Is there a reason you can't do these things?

At 02:41 PM 10/9/2003 -0600, Keven Miller wrote:
>Can HPCOBOL create a fixed binary file?
>How do you specify in the source?
>
>Or is it "limited" to ascii files?

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Tom Brandt
Northtech Systems, Inc.
130 S. 1st Street, Suite 220
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1343
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