On Thursday, November 12, 1998 4:23 PM, Stigers, Greg [And]
[SMTP:[log in to unmask]] wrote:
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> Best in what sense of the word? Most easily recognized and maintained, or
> easiest to code, or most performant, or...
>
> I'm kind of partial to
>        ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
>        CONFIGURATION SECTION.
>        SPECIAL-NAMES.
>            SYMBOLIC CHARACTERS TAB IS 10.
> Then use TAB just as you would SPACE, in your VALUE clause (preferred) or
> STRING statements. But I worry about portability, and
> I get the impression that that is not everyone's biggest concern. Why
would
> we want to port FROM the 3000? Unless it is to show how slowly something
can

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Because some jerkwater 3rd party vendor no longer supports the 3000 with
it's
new product line.  I don't offhand remember the control statement right now,
but you can get the compiler to flag any HP specific code in yer program.
I'll
be doing that starting Monday as I begin to move some of our in house
written
stuff to the 9000 :-(  Never have concerned myself about "portability" in
the
always kinda related it to "potty".  How the times change.

> run elsewhere...
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jim Gilbert [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 12, 1998 1:34 PM
> > To:   [log in to unmask]
> > Subject:      Tabs in COBOL output
> >
> > Hey gang, I need to create a tab-delimited output file in a cobol
program.
> >
> > What's the best way to get the tab characters in my output line?
> >
> > TIA,
> > Jim