John,
Way in the back of the COBOL reference manual is a sample program which can
help get you started.
Also, there is a SIGCOBOL mailing list, similar to HP3000-L (a lot of the
same people hang out in both) where you can get a wealth of COBOL info. See
http://www.interex.org/advocacy/listservers.html
for more info on the SIGCOBOL mailing list. I highly recommend it for
COBOL-specific help.
As for your immediate problems, please remember that COBOL, unlike C or
Java, is a column-oriented language. The first 6 bytes of each line of
your source file are reserved for sequence numbers. All of your text must
start in column 7. Column 7 itself is reserved for special characters - "*"
indicating a comment line, "$" indicating a compiler directive, "-"
indicating a continuation line. Division, section and paragraph names begin
in column 8, statements begin in column 12. Most of your problems have to
do with things being in the wrong column.
You are also missing the Environment and Data Divisions, which are required.
At 10:42 PM 6/21/2001 +0900, DASS,JOHN (Non-A-Singapore,ex1) wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I am pretty new to HP3K and just starting to write
>some programs in C and now I would like to try COBOL.
>I have downloaded the COBOL II reference manual from
>docs.hp but just can't seem to get running.
<snip rest>
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Tom Brandt
Northtech Systems, Inc.
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Ann Arbor, MI 48103
http://www.northtech.com/
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