COBOL Weblers 6

[CliveC]

I thought this thread might be of interest in this forum.

thread216-668888

Clive

http://tubularity.com

 

[Dimandja]

Thanks, Clive. That thread just solved a little annoying printing problem we have been having.

Dimandja

 

[walshi]

I have no use for this, but I like it - another star on the way.

 

[Crox]

Great!

 

[Crox]

I send this thread to a friend and his reaction was that this solution was not his first choice. He suggests a much more relaxed solution using RUBY. I asked him to put his idea here and get all credits for it but he said I should do that for him. So this is Erik Veenstra's solution:

RUBY script:

-->

require "win32ole"

ie = WIN32OLE.new("InternetExplorer.Application")

ARGV.each do |file|
  ie.navigate(file)

  sleep 3

  ie.execWB(6, 2)       # OLECMDID_PRINT, OLECMDEXECOPT_DONTPROMPTUSER

  sleep 3
end

<--

$ ruby ieprint.rb test.html

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/

http://rubyinstaller.sourceforge.net/

 

[CobolKid]

Another star, CliveC

Good info!

 

[Crox]

an update on the ruby solution:

http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/tar2rubyscript/

http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/rubyscript2exe/

Regards,

Crox

 

[cobollekes]

Those GNU guys, do they have a good COBOL compiler and if, where can you download it?

 

[Dimandja]

Start here for free GNU COBOL compiler:

http://www.gnu.org/software/cobol/cobol.html

Dimandja

 

[cobollekes]

Hi, what are your experiences with this compiler? Is it your favorite? If not, what differences are there? Thanks!

 

[Dimandja]

I have not used any of the open source COBOL compilers.

The GNU COBOL project is still under development according to this link:

http://www.gnu.org/software/cobol/cobolforgcc.html

You can download the current evaluation version at:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/open-cobol/

The stated purpose of this project:

&quot;COBOL for GCC is a project to create a COBOL 85 compliant compiler for GNU/Linux and other operating systems, using the GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) code generation framework.&quot;

The current project status includes:

&quot;Implementation of a miniscule subset of COBOL, consisting of working storage with non-numeric literals, and all of the COBOL 2002 integral data types (binary-char binary-short binary-long and also binary-long-long) and structures (incomplete), redefines, occurs, pointers and parts of the set verb and the display and stop run verbs in the procedure division.&quot;

Dimandja