Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] Before the next release...

[Bernard G. <bg...@fr...>]

Mirce Vladimirov a écrit :

> There are some things that I think should be improved in the next
> release :     1. INSPECT SOME-FIELD .... doesn't work and
> INSPECT "some text in brackets" ..... works.
> Could you me more specific for this point ? I.e. complete pgm
> fragment.
>
>      2. When there is a  :             DISPLAY MYSCREEN.
> ACCEPT  MYSCREEN.             and type something in the first field on
> the screen and then I move from one screen field to        another ,
> and then I goback to previous screen field ,  it's value (of the
> previous) gets lost and an empty        field is presented.
> Ferran, could you comment on this one ?
>      3. It would be good if the ctrl+C is enabled to interrupt
> TINY-COBOL programs just like all the other programs in Linux.
> It works for me (Redhat 7.0)! And there should be no reason that TC
> would intercept
> ctrl+c.
>
>      4.            READ MY-FILE.            MOVE
> FILE-ALPHANUMERIC-FIELD TO SCREEN-ALPHANUMERIC-FIELD.
> DISPLAY MY-SCREEN.            ACCEPT MY-SCREEN.       The value of the
> FILE-ALPHANUMERIC-FIELD is="1234567     "and the value of
> SCREEN-ALPHANUMERIC-FIELD that is shown on the screen is="
> 1234567" .In other words, it's right justified,instead of (it's
> original value) left justified.
> Another point for Ferran I'm afraid!
>      5. Is it posible to show the source-line number and cause of a
> runtime-failure ?
> Yes, I think this is a good idea. OpenCobol does a similar thing, I'll
> look at it.
>      6. TINY-COBOL permits 3 redefinitions of a same field. Is it
> posible to increase the number of redefinitions ?
> Again, some specific pgm fragment...
>      7. How can we rebuild(or re-index, whatever) an indexed file ? Or
> is Berkley the proper adress to ask this        question ? If so ,
> where on the WWW can I find such information ?
> I think one could provide such a pgm, even if I think that the best
> place
> would be within the DB lib (but they are way ahead, with a non LGPL
> license).
> Who can volunteer to write a useful COBOL utiity calling
> DB API's? That is a kind of pgm which could join the cocol-utils
> project...
>
> But in all cases, the next release won't have these features, we need
> to issue pretty quickly what we have done so far (more than two
> monthes from last one).
>
>
> But we will seriously consider some of this points for release
> 0.60.
>
> Bernard Giroud
>  That's all for now.   Mirce Vladimirov
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