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I have a copy of "micro focus visual object cobol." It is old, but looks like a good low cost, way to learn something about OOP and GUI programming for the novice. The documentation isn't written for beginners. Does anyone recall anything like a "for dummies" manual for this development...

I have Fujitsu COBOL V4. It came free with a book, "Mastering COBOL" written by Carol Baroudi. It worked great on NT4, but I have upgraded to XP Pro and cannot install the COBOL software. I ran Microsoft's Application Compatibility Tool utility and it made 19 fixes to the setup.exe file on...

What is the best way to convert an X(8)field to a 9(8)field? Simply moving the X type to the 9 type causes a justification problem. I am using Fujitsu COBOL, not Power Cobol.

I have a need to examine the contents of a tab delimited text file. To find the start and end of each field I need to look at each character in the string to determine if it's a tab character. My question is in regard to how to define a tab character for comparison. I'm thinking that I can...

In my former life I wrote business applications in COBOL. CIRCA late 1970's and 80's. This was the old style "green screen" COBOL. I was pretty good at it, but I've been out of the business for sometime. I now have a need to write some custom business apps. To learn what today's...