Welcome to the Deskware COBOL Forum on Tek-Tips 1

[mattdean]

Welcome to the Deskware COBOL Forum on Tek-Tips



This is a new discussion group for questions and answers concerning Deskware COBOL. Deskware COBOL is available for several platforms from

http://www.deskware.com/cobol/cobol.htm.

A manual for Deskware COBOL will be available later this year ($30-$50).



Deskware is a small software company with two products - Deskware COBOL and VACE. For more information about these see the Deskware Homepage at

http://www.deskware.com.

Release 0.016 for Win95/NT will be available soon. Solaris,Linux, and FreeBSD 0.008 soon after that. We have some very exciting things under development at this point in time. We have a web interface for Deskware COBOL and a new concept for developing truly thin clients and portable code. You can take a sneak peak of the Solaris version at

http://www.deskware.com/cgi-bin/cobol.exe?-hmenu

 

[Marquitos]

I get a syntax error with the following line (it's from "Learn Cobol in 21 days")<br>
<br>
COMPUTE THE-RESULT = FIRST-NUMBER + SECOND-NUMBER.<br>
<br>
any suggestions?

 

[mattdean]

Marquitos,<br>
<br>
Our product is not fully ANSI85 compatible, so the version you downloaded does not support the COMPUTE command. The new version that will be released very soon does support the COMPUTE command. <br>
<br>
Very soon we will be releasing a version of Deskware COBOL called<br>
CobolScript. It will be an improved version of Deskware COBOL.<br>
We are putting together a PDF manual, and a new web site for<br>
registered users of COBOLScript. We will be selling development licenses for $49.95. With a development license you will get a login id that will allow you to download a version of CobolScript 1.10 that will run programs of up to 32000 lines of code, a manual of all of the supported commands (in PDF format), and access to updates (CobolScript 1.1,1.2,1.3,1.4, and 1.5) as they are made available. <br>
<br>
CobolScript is a much improved version of Deskware COBOL and contains additional commands that Deskware COBOL did not (COMPUTE, PERFORM VARYING,...), internet CGI programming commands (ACCEPT DATA FROM WEBPAGE), financial function (calc depresisation scheduls, anuities, pvs, etc.), and serveral other improvement. COBOLScript is not completely ANSI85 compatibile, and it not intended as a replacement for mainframe COBOL. It has been designed for platform independance and for the specific purpose of building system interfaces and internet based information systems. We are very excited about CobolScript.

http://www.cobolscript.com/cgi-bin/cobol.exe?uts.cbl

is an example of how this works. You can view the source at<br>

http://www.cobolscript.com/cgi-bin/cobol.exe?-hlisting+uts.cbl<br>

CobolScript will be available for Windows NT/95/98, SunOS, FreeBSD, and Linux. Other platforms will follow.<br>
<br>
I would like to encourage you to take a look at the demo at<br>

http://www.cobolscript.com/cgi-bin/cobol.exe?uts.cbl,

enter data, and test it out. The programming philosophy we have is based on<br>
pseudo-conversational programming and platform independance. This demo is on a unix FreeBSD server, but runs on WinNT,SunOS, and Linux without a problem. Applications developed with CobolScript are the ultimate in thin clients - they run on any platform that has a web browser.<br>
<br>
Enjoy your programming,<br>
<br>
Matt Dean<br>
dean@deskware.com<br>
<br>

 

[mattdean]

We are very close to the release of CobolScript. For a preview see:

http://www.cobolscript.com/cgi-bin/cobol.exe?samples.cbl<br>

<br>
Enjoy your programming,<br>
<br>
Matt Dean<br>
dean@deskware.com