Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] CGI.BIN use.

[John C. <jo...@we...>]

On Friday 28 September 2007 01:11:27 am David Essex wrote:
> John Culleton wrote:
>  > There is a Tiny test program that uses a c language
>  > bridge program, tdb03 in the test programs.
>  > But the c language inteface program own't compile.
>  > Other c language items  in the test suite do compile.
>  > So perhaps Essex or somebody could debug that piece of
>  > code. I haven't done enoough c to tackle it.
>
> The program found in 'test.code/tdb03' requires 'postgresql' (C headers
> and library) to compile.
>
> Currently do not have 'postgresql' installed on any PC, so I can't test it.
>

Aha! So that is the answer.  I should have guessed from the name "tdb3." 
I guess I will dig into the c program to find the part that deals with stdin 
and stdout. I don't need the complication and the overhead of a RDBMS; the IS 
file system works for me. 

Open COBOL has a feature that allows addressing stdin and stdout as files. 
Supposedly this permits a COBOL program to act as a cgi program.  I will 
experiment with this as time permits. 


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John Culleton
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