Turns out Bill has been fighting some health issues, but last round of notes are more positive. Which is yayys.
Anyway, he just sent me a 2005 copy of his long standing COBOL FAQ, with
Recently, I lost my Comcast webspace, so none of the files I used to have,
are out there anymore. I have attached to this note a word version of the
FAQ that I did a decade ago. I think it was even out of date then.
You can edit and post it any way you want.
This is the word version which is what I used to edit.
...
So, aside from the lost webspace, this is another yayys. I'm going to post his document here as an attachment, in the open-cobol.sourceforge.net project space as a clickable, and on the COBOL-UP project space, and then maybe even extend it a little. But that last part in not the current plan, the current plan is to keep this doc up and alive for posterity.
Attached, and I'll post links once I get it snuggled into some new homes. I told Bill the highlighted, lead link will be in COBOL-UP space, as it's a more generic, compiler agnostic project space.
And as an aside; this is Bill's copyright notice:
This FAQ is copyright 1994-2005 by William M. Klein.
It may be freely redistributed as long as it is completely
unmodified and that no attempt is made to restrict
any recipient from redistributing it on the same terms.
It may not be sold or incorporated into commercial
documents without the written permission of the copyright holder.
Permission is granted for this document to be made available for
file transfer from sites offering unrestricted file transfer
on the Internet and from the COBOL Forums.
This document is provided as is, without any warranty.
Your mileage may vary.
So, I don't mean to imply that he has given any and all the right to modify the document, that top blurb was between the two of us. But, as stated, feel free to redistrubute this file. It's a more than worthy COBOL document. Perhaps as a christmas present to some little ones. :-) And you'll get grand, excited kudos in return, I'm sure.
Many thanks to Bill for offering up the opportunity to repost this wondrous piece of lore.
Turns out Bill has been fighting some health issues, but last round of notes are more positive. Which is yayys.
Anyway, he just sent me a 2005 copy of his long standing COBOL FAQ, with
So, aside from the lost webspace, this is another yayys. I'm going to post his document here as an attachment, in the open-cobol.sourceforge.net project space as a clickable, and on the COBOL-UP project space, and then maybe even extend it a little. But that last part in not the current plan, the current plan is to keep this doc up and alive for posterity.
Attached, and I'll post links once I get it snuggled into some new homes. I told Bill the highlighted, lead link will be in COBOL-UP space, as it's a more generic, compiler agnostic project space.
And as an aside; this is Bill's copyright notice:
So, I don't mean to imply that he has given any and all the right to modify the document, that top blurb was between the two of us. But, as stated, feel free to redistrubute this file. It's a more than worthy COBOL document. Perhaps as a christmas present to some little ones. :-) And you'll get grand, excited kudos in return, I'm sure.
Many thanks to Bill for offering up the opportunity to repost this wondrous piece of lore.
Cheers,
Brian
Last edit: Brian Tiffin 2015-12-05
@btiffin Please do so - either as PDF or, prefered, in HTML form like his initial one; speaking of it - please adjust the FAQ entry to link to https://web.archive.org/web/20150930231552/http://home.comcast.net/~wmklein/FAQ/COBOLFAQ.htm.
Thank you.
Last edit: Simon Sobisch 2020-02-19
Simon,
https://web.archive.org/web/20150930231552/http://home.comcast.net/~wmklein/FAQ/COBOLFAQ.htm
That link does not seem to work.
Works for me with different browsers on different OS. As far as I know there are no geographical restrictions on web.archive.org.
Works for me using firefox v75.0 x64
On 12/04/2020 00:09, KenUnix wrote:
Thanks. It's working today.
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 11:01 AM Vincent (Bryan) Coen vcoen@users.sourceforge.net wrote: