John DiPirro ([log in to unmask]) wrote: : Also if you know of any good date manipulation routines that run on the : HP3000 and are callabe from COBOL code I'd be interested. I'd recommend using the standard COBOL functions that are now available for date manipulation. The standard functions INTEGER-OF-DATE and DATE-OF-INTEGER do all the hard work nowadays. Walter Murray Hewlett-Packard Support Technology Lab