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.

Any assistance will be most appreciated.

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Joe

648      ERROR      FILE'S FIXED ATTRIBUTES DIFFER FROM PROGRAM [39]!
(COBERR 648)
         MESSAGE

         CAUSE      The file organization declaration within the
ENVIRONMENT DIVISION
                    is different than the organization of the actual file
for which an
                    OPEN statement was executed.  Compare the two
organizations and
                    adjust as necessary to correct the problem.  This could
 also occur
                    if the record size does not match the size of the FD
records.  It
                    could also occur if the KEY types in an INDEXED file do
 not match
                    or the presence or absence of the WITH DUPLICATES
clause does not
                    match.  Use the RECORD CONTAINS clause to specify the
minimum and
                    maximum valid record sizes.