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Mike - Thank you - your answer was perfect. I have tried it and it works. I do wish I had asked B4 I pulled all my hair out. Some answers are so simple but I would never have thought of that one. Thank you again. Chip

When the user is prompted for a directory in a script and they just hit enter, how do I determine that nothing was entered. I have tried numerous variations of the script below and cannot make it work. (and i have no hair left). I never get the "Nothing entered" echo. echo...

I agree with mrregan - the programmer wants 14 characters with the 1st or leading as the sign. Although why anyone would want it that way is beyond me. If they left it as a normal picture clause,without the "sign is leading seperate character", COBOL would handle it just as Rasi suggests.

I like www.sco.com On that site you can find SCO Training and links to training centers. I also use it for technical research (technical articles) is a good place to search to solve problems. They also have an e-learning course. Hope this helps chip

1st - make sure you are running the same object on all 3 machines - the program that works on 1 test machine may have new code that isnt on the 2 that dont work ( i doubt it - but that would be too easy -lol) 2nd - look at the code where the accept is - after the display...

I dont have an answer for you but may be able to point you on your way. I use http://www.sco.com/ta/ and find it very helpful. It is a search engine by sco tech advisors. The ta stands for technical articles. You can search using "out of inodes" and get several responses. TA = 106289...

Thank you Crox I used metacrawler and searched for cobfd (cobfd.exe found nothing) and was rewarded. The 3rd listed result, Software Download http://www.enter.net/~flexus/softwaredownload.html, was VERY helpful. When I went to that web page, the fifth listed download, COBOL FD Analyzer, was...

I have alot of FD copybooks that need to be converted so that I can find the actual starting and ending positions of all the individual fields. Has anyone written a cobol program to do this or know of a utility?. I am working with SCO unix and Microfocus COBOL. Doing this by hand is a REAL...