On Fri, 13 Mar 1998 14:38:51 PST "John P. Bardessono" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>With all the chatter about version.pub.sys lets get on a side line.
>
>What coding is required (Cobol, C) that version.pub.sys will
>recognize?
>
There was a related thread last September (9/22-4/97) on the SIGCOBOL-L.

The simple answer would be to include in your source:

$VERSION "Somestring"

We found that although this works fine in the main program, we weren't able to "access" this information in DYNAMIC/SUBPROGRAM "modules" using VERSION.PUB.SYS, but instead used DEBUG to inspect "similar" information we place at the beginning of WORKING-STORAGE. As I indicated in the earlier thread, we haven't pursued this issue in "years" so this may no longer be the case.

(I took the liberty of cross-posting this response to the SIGCOBOL List.)

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