At 09:43 AM 3/5/95 -0400, Scott Herman wrote:
[snip...]
>You can't have your cake and eat it too. (well, technically you can, but
>it's quite messy and distasteful). Do you want portability or platform
>specific performance features like XL's, KSAM, turboImage, etc.
>
>Suggestion:
>If you want to use XL's and KSAM write an interface in C or Pascal and call
>it from MF COBOL, g++, or the 3rd party 'ported' product of your choice. It
>ain't hard. I've done it.
 
Are you suggesting then that MF COBOL can call static libraries (USL/RL) but
not shared libraries (XL)?  Shared libraries aren't unknown on Unix,
especially HPUX and even Windows.  What does MF COBOL do about them?  Or do
we have a problem with the dynamic mechanism used by MPE?
 
Regards.
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