Sorry I didn't expound re PAUSE via COBOL.  As DBurney points out, COBOL
doesn't speak HP Real, PAUSE does.  I'm having trouble locating docs for the
cheater used here, HPEXTIN, but the parms in the example cause it to return
an HP Real equivalent to the integer value passed.  Anybody know where to
read the gory details of HPEXTIN?

Tracy

 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
 PROGRAM-ID. PAUSE.
 REMARKS. just demo's COBOL usage of the PAUSE intrinsic.
*  which requires a REAL parm, not COBOL-supported.  Cheat via HPEXTIN.
 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
 CONFIGURATION SECTION.
 DATA DIVISION.
 FILE SECTION.
 WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
 01  CHAR-STRING PIC 9999.
 01  STRING-LEN  PIC S9(4) COMP.
 01  REAL-SECS   PIC S9(9) COMP.
 01  ERRCODE     PIC S9(4) COMP.
 01  INT-SECS    PIC S9(4) COMP VALUE 1.
 PROCEDURE DIVISION.
 OUTER-BLOCK SECTION.
   PERFORM UNTIL INT-SECS = 0
     DISPLAY "Enter PAUSE time in secs, 0=quit; format is 9999:"
         NO ADVANCING
     ACCEPT CHAR-STRING
     INSPECT CHAR-STRING REPLACING ALL SPACE BY "0"
     CALL INTRINSIC ".LEN." USING CHAR-STRING GIVING STRING-LEN
     CALL INTRINSIC "HPEXTIN" USING CHAR-STRING STRING-LEN
                         0 1 0 0 REAL-SECS ERRCODE
     IF  ERRCODE <> 0
         DISPLAY "HPEXTIN ERROR= " ERRCODE
     ELSE
         DISPLAY TIME-OF-DAY "PAUSING..."
         CALL INTRINSIC "PAUSE" USING REAL-SECS
         DISPLAY TIME-OF-DAY
         DISPLAY " "
     END-IF
  END-PERFORM



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Becker [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2000 10:05 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Pause Intrinsic and Turbo Image Manual
>
>
> The problem here is that there is no COBOL comp-1 or comp-2
> USAGE items in =
> the PICTURE clause.
>
> In the past, we wrote an SPL routine to do the conversion.
>
> At our shop, we could use C ( C is COBOL without the OBOL ),
> but this =
> option is not open to all.
>
> Of course, you could use hexadecimal PICTURE high order byte
> with a value =
> something like X'4000' (octal is more fun, though) and a lower value =
> BINARY field, all redefined to make it come out right.
>
> Have not tried the HPCICOMMAND intrinsic for "PAUSE nnnn"
> from COBOL, but =
> as mentioned before, that SHOULD work.
>
> >>> David Burney <[log in to unmask]> 07/10 9:47 AM >>>
> Ooops.  Aparently there is a Pause Intrinsic.
>
> According to :
>
> http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/doc3k/B3265090821.13550/192=20
>
> The format is :
>
> NM and CM callable
>
> Suspends the calling process for a specified number of seconds.
>
> Syntax :
>
>               32R
> Pause (interval);
>
> Interval        32-bit real by reference (required)
>                 Passes the amount of time, in seconds
>                 that the process pauses.  The value of
>                 interval must be positive.  The maximum
>                 time allowed is approximately
>                 2,147,484 seconds (almost 25 days).
>
>
> On Monday, July 10, 2000 1:15 PM, gts  wrote:
> : All,
> :
> : Can anyone give me the pause Intrinsic Syntax in Cobol, and
> does anyone
> : know the easiest way to get a Turbo Image manual.  Thanks
> :
> : Chris Miller
> : Genesis Total Solutions, Inc.
>
>
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