"Duane Percox" <[log in to unmask]>

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> We still do this (since $version was a recent feature in cobol and
> we have been working on this box since 1979.
>
> Here is our working storage layout:
>
> 01  VERSION-DISPLAY.
>     03  PROG-NAME                    PIC X(8) VALUE "PAY002".
>     03  FILLER                       PIC X(2) VALUE SPACES.
>     03  PROG-VERSION                 PIC X(7) VALUE "H.00.05".
>     03  FILLER                       PIC X(10) VALUE
>         " compiled ".
>     03  PROG-COMPILED                PIC X(15) VALUE "99/99/99".
<snip>

It's deja vu all over again.  Thought someone was "reading my mail."

<snip>
> This causes the compiler to store a compile date/time string
> in the OBJ module that is generated. We have a utility program
> called 'GETVER' which can read an nmobj/prog/nmprg file and find
> this version area and also the compiler generated date/time string.
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But what I would really like is a program that can pull this information
out of a library module.  Anybody got one of those already written?

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