Joe Howell ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
: My brain must not be working well this morning.  I am working on a Y2K
: remediation effort for a client, and we would need to get around the
: infamous error quoted below.  Yes, I know that older versions of CM Cobol
: did not enforce file sizes in FD's and now NM COBOL 85 does.  My question
: is, isn't there a way (COBRUNTIME?) to tell Cobol to ignore this offending
: condition?  (for the time being, anyway) I looked up the COBRUNTIME
: settings on LaserRom and they didn't seem to address this problem.

Just curious.  Rather than compile with the ANSI74 entry point or
the STAT74 control option, to get around the error, why not correct
the error by fixing the program to correctly describe the file?

Walter Murray
Hewlett-Packard
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