tiny-cobol-users

Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] Re: Tinycobol-0.59 libhtcobol.so.0

[Maury H. <mh...@cr...>]

Volker:

>>>I have Tinycobol-0.59 installed on my RedHat 8.0
>>>server and I have the following error at runtime.
>>>
>>>coboltst: error while loading shared libraries:
>>>libhtcobol.so.0: cannot open shared object file; No
>>>such file or directory

[snip]

> Well, I've got the same problem after upgrading to 0.59. When I define
> the LD_LIBRARY_PATH at runtime, my program runs fine. But I'd like to
> have the program linked statically, as done in the prior versions. I
> didn't change my Makefile. So what to do now?

I just installed 0.59 on RedHat 7.2, and got the same message.  I was able to 
fix it by adding a soft link in /usr/lib named libhtcobol.so.0 that points to 
libhtcobol.so.0.59.0.

e.g.

   % cd /usr/lib
   % ln -s /usr/local/lib/libhtcobol.so.0.59.0 libhtcobol.so.0


Maury...

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[Tiny-cobol-users] Re: Tinycobol-0.59 libhtcobol.so.0

[Volker E. <en...@st...>]

> > I have Tinycobol-0.59 installed on my RedHat 8.0
> > server and I have the following error at runtime.
> >
> > coboltst: error while loading shared libraries:
> > libhtcobol.so.0: cannot open shared object file; No
> > such file or directory
> >
> > The file libhtcobol.so.0 does exist on my system and
> > is in my PATH so I do not know why I get this error or
> > how to correct it.  Any help will be appreciated.
> 
> Is it installed ? If no, you probably miss to define
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to the directory where you
> built.

Well, I've got the same problem after upgrading to 0.59. When I define
the LD_LIBRARY_PATH at runtime, my program runs fine. But I'd like to
have the program linked statically, as done in the prior versions. I
didn't change my Makefile. So what to do now?

Volker

Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] TINYCOBOL ANSWER

[Ferran P. <fer...@re...>]

pie...@in... wrote:

>I'm Luca Tofanelli. What' s the TINYCOBOL instruction for read data 
>from the keyboard without display the character on the screen?
>
>Thank you.
>  
>
It should be

ACCEPT SOME-VAR NO-ECHO.

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[<pie...@in...>]

I'm Luca Tofanelli. What' s the TINYCOBOL instruction for read data =0D=0A=
from the keyboard without display the character on the screen?=0D=0A=0D=0A=
Thank you.

Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] Tinycobol-0.59 libhtcobol.so.0

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

Rod Schell a écrit :

> I have Tinycobol-0.59 installed on my RedHat 8.0
> server and I have the following error at runtime.
>
> coboltst: error while loading shared libraries:
> libhtcobol.so.0: cannot open shared object file; No
> such file or directory
>
> The file libhtcobol.so.0 does exist on my system and
> is in my PATH so I do not know why I get this error or
> how to correct it.  Any help will be appreciated.
>

Is it installed ? If no, you probably miss to define
LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to the directory where you
built.

> thanks
> Rod
>

Hope this helps,

--
Bernard Giroud

[Tiny-cobol-users] TinyCOBOL for BeOS

[Matt V. <ma...@ve...>]

All,

To those interested, I've managed to get 0.59 compiled on BeOS... 

http://www.bebits.com/app/2798

Keep up the great work!
Matt Verran

[Tiny-cobol-users] Tinycobol-0.59 libhtcobol.so.0

[Rod S. <rod...@ya...>]

I have Tinycobol-0.59 installed on my RedHat 8.0
server and I have the following error at runtime.

coboltst: error while loading shared libraries:
libhtcobol.so.0: cannot open shared object file; No
such file or directory

The file libhtcobol.so.0 does exist on my system and
is in my PATH so I do not know why I get this error or
how to correct it.  Any help will be appreciated.

thanks
Rod


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[Tiny-cobol-users] Sort (re)integration

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

Hi all,

I have uploaded changes to support and test the internal
sort, both with SEQUENTIAL and LINE-SEQUENTIAL
organizations.

By doing so, I got a funny behaviour: AFAICS, individual
tests seems ok, but not integrated with the test_suite perl
script. Has anybody an idea ?

Bernard Giroud

Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] TC and GCC 3.x

[Jeff S. <why...@ya...>]

I've been using 3.0.4 for some time now, and although I
haven't been as active with TC lately, I cannot remember
having any issues with it.  I have not moved up yet,
because I would want to go to 3.2 next, and I know that
move would break some C++ stuff on my system.

On further though, I believe I ran a portion of the NIST
suite when I switched.  It may have broken a handful of
tests (which may have really been broken anyways), but for
the most part, it came out the same as with healthy pre-3.x
versions.

  -- Jeff S.


--- David Essex <de...@ar...> wrote:
> In the past there have been some reports of problems in
> using TC with GCC
> version 3.x.
> 
> So I was wondering if any one has compiled TC using GCC
> 3.x.
> 
> And if so, did GCC 3.x compile the assembler code
> generated by TC to create
> a binary executable ?
> 
> David Essex

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Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] Help Installing

[David E. <de...@ar...>]

Dave Owen wrote:

  > I have attempted to install the tinycobol-0.58-1.i386.rpm
  > and I get the error: failed dependencies db3 is needed

This probably failed because db3 is named db-3.


  > I tried the:
  >
  > ln -s libdb1.so.xx libdb.so
  > ln -s db1/db.h db.h
  >
  > but this had no effect and
  >
  > ./configure --with-libdb=3
  >
  > returns
  > configure: no such file or directory.

You only need to configure the source code.


  > If I do a whereis on libdb-3 it returns:
  > /usr/lib/libdb-3.so /usr/lib/libdb-3.a
  >
  > and
  > whereis db3 returns
  > /usr/include/db3 which contains some 3 .h files
  >
  > (it appears the db3 package is already installed but
  > not available to the rpm installer process?)
  >
  > Questions:
  > 1.  Where should I store the tinycobol-0.58-1.i386.rpm
  > file or does it matter?

Not really.


  > 2.  How do I resolve the db3 errors

Build TC from the source.

tar -vzxf tinycobol-0.59.tar.gz
cd tinycobol-0.59
./configure --with-ldb=3
make
make install

The above works with SuSE 8.0, so it should work with 7.1.


  > 3.  Is there a more detailed set of instructions for installation
that may help?

There is an introduction 'Introduction to COBOL and TinyCOBOL', with
several translations available on the TC docs web page (1).


Hope this helps.


David Essex

1) TC docs web page
http://tiny-cobol.sourceforge.net/docs.html

[Tiny-cobol-users] Wrong picture about TC

[Mirce V. <vm...@ma...>]

The world has a wrong picture about TinyCobol.

Why ?

Because  http://tiny-cobol.sourceforge.net is giving it. It stil hasn't
updated to show 0.59 version,
the latest news is :
    June 13, 2002:
    A full BeOS port of version 0.58 is now available courtesy of Matt
Verran.

and the snapshots section (which has been updated to "downloads") points to
download the 0.58 version.
But it's OK.
I went to the http://sourceforge.net/projects/tiny-cobol/ and done the
download thing.

[Tiny-cobol-users] Help Installing

[oeidave <oe...@ea...>]

Good Morning;

First, I am a novice at Linux so having said as much, I am moving off of =
windows and to Linux (SuSE 7.1) and need cobol.

I have attempted to install the tinycobol-0.58-1.i386.rpm and i get the =
error:

failed dependencies
db3 is needed

I tried the .libc5. version and got the same error but with lib.so.5 as =
the missing component.

I tried the:

ln -s libdb1.so.xx libdb.so
ln -s db1/db.h db.h=20

but this had no effect and=20

./configure --with-libdb=3D3=20

returns
configure: no such file or directory.

If I do a whereis on libdb-3 it returns:
/usr/lib/libdb-3.so /usr/lib/libdb-3.a

and
whereis db3 returns
/usr/include/db3 which contains some 3 .h files

(it appears the db3 package is already installed but not available to =
the rpm installer process?)

Questions:
1.  Where should I store the tinycobol-0.58-1.i386.rpm file or does it =
matter?
2.  How do I resolve the db3 errors
3.  Is there a more detailed set of instructions for installation that =
may help?

Again, thanks for any help.
Dave Owen

[Tiny-cobol-users] TC and GCC 3.x

[David E. <de...@ar...>]

In the past there have been some reports of problems in using TC with GCC
version 3.x.

So I was wondering if any one has compiled TC using GCC 3.x.

And if so, did GCC 3.x compile the assembler code generated by TC to create
a binary executable ?


David Essex


David Essex

[Tiny-cobol-users] TinyCOBOL Brazilian Homepage Update

[Hudson R. <hud...@so...>]

Hi all,

I update the TinyCOBOL Brazilian homepage to 0.59 version.

In this release, I'll modify it to make user life easier in search informations in it.

Any ideas and suggestions would be appreciated.

Regards
Hudson

Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] Changes to RTS names

[Hudson R. <hud...@so...>]

Hi Alain,

> Sorry, I was tired and a little furious when I wrote it ...
> tired, because I work very hard with TC from some month
> and furious (a little) because the errors list is meaningless
> and, sometimes, without any error, the generation of the ".s" abort.
> But, we are on 0.x version ... and compatibility with win is not
> my real problem ;-)
 
Me too, Windows is not my real problem. I'm a beginner in Linux, but, currently, I use only it.
In TinyCOBOL, I found a lot of bugs(are they really bugs?), but I don't report them because others bugs that I had reported, wasn't solved. :(
I prefer to report this bugs that I found, when the other bugs I reported, was solved, or explained, just in case the error had been mine!
I think it's better on this way because is easier to developers solve the problems..
Other problem is the end of year... To all the jobs, is very hard the end of year... Many developers might be very busy in this period. :(

> (I had also win on my machine when I bought it, but I have rubbout
> it at the first occasion)

Unfortunately, I can't rubbout Windows from my machine, because in my house I have only two machines and my parents use my machine too. :(

>   What can we do ?
>   example with the error on sort : Bernard think that the problem
>   is with the return-cod which is not defined, but, in fact, if
>   we correct (on our own copy) the return-cod,  we can see that the
>   real problem is on "using"  (I think ).

We could create a list of bugs(found) to be solved, and developers could walk through the list to solve these bugs. On this way is easier to test and determine the state of the compiler. Developers, Is a good idea?

>   Ok, this is corrected now !
 
I notice that when I got the last version from CVS. :)

>   But, sometimes I dream for a really working free-cobol
>   which can be a mix from TC and open cobol(s) ;-((

Me too, TinyCOBOL is on an usable state, however are many bugs to be solved, and many features to be inserted. I notice that we have to be developers by ourselves.. I don´t know C, but I´m looking for a time to learn and help the developers.

> If you are Ok to share the $1,000 you can consolidate my email
> at viaVerio ;-))

Well, If I had $1,000 now, I will give a party! :) 
my birthday was in last wednesday. I have 21 years old now! :)

Best Regards.
Hudson

Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] Please help me

[Hudson R. <hud...@so...>]

Hi David,

> It works as expected using TC 0.59, MinGW version.
> 
> I did have to add the following extra line of code in 'unstring02.cob',
> to get rid of some garbage in the first record display.
> 
> Program-Initiate.    
>   initialize ws-C1 ws-C2 ws-C3 ws-C4

I don't notice this problem. Thanks for your attention.

Hudson.

Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] Please help me

[David E. <de...@ar...>]

At 02:25 PM 26/10/02 -0200, Hudson Reis wrote:

>> UNSTRING WS-FILE1-DATA DELIMITED BY x'09' INTO
>>    WS-01-1 WS-01-2 WS-01-3 WS-01-4 ...
>
> I create a example called unstring00.cob. Please, Look it.
> Also, I create a more advanced example called unstring02.cob. 
> Please, Look it.

It works as expected using TC 0.59, MinGW version.

I did have to add the following extra line of code in 'unstring02.cob', to
get rid of some garbage in the first record display.

Program-Initiate.    
  initialize ws-C1 ws-C2 ws-C3 ws-C4


David Essex


David Essex

RE: [Tiny-cobol-users] Re:

[vze3y7w8 <bor...@ve...>]

Hudson,

Instead of the attached html document, could you post a link to where it
resides?

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: tin...@li... [mailto:tiny-cobol-
> use...@li...] On Behalf Of Hudson Reis
> Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 1:22 PM
> To: tin...@li...
> Cc: moh...@ho...
> Subject: [Tiny-cobol-users] Re:
>
> Hi Fareed,
>
> I will forward this message to our mailing list so that other users
can
> view the content of this message. I hope you don't mind. :)

[Tiny-cobol-users] Re:

[Hudson R. <hud...@so...>]

Hi Fareed,

I will forward this message to our mailing list so that other users can view the content of this message. I hope you don't mind. :)

> sir,

Sir? I'm not a sir, I'm a young man... I have 21 years old.. :)

> i am a student of engg, working at this site first time i wanna get some > detai notes of cobol to me it will b great help for me.

Well, lets go!

Talking about TinyCOBOL project, it is a project to develop a free COBOL compiler according from COBOL-85 ISO/IEC, ANSI and X/Open guidelines. He have support to 80% from ISO/IEC COBOL-85 standard(I think) and it's avaliable to Linux, FreeBSD, Windows and BeOS(In development) platforms.

To more information about TinyCOBOL project, please go to the following addresses: 
http://tiny-cobol.sourceforge.net/
or
http://tinycobol.org

See our documentation in http://tinycobol.org/docs.html

If you speak to portuguese language, go to the address http://br.tinycobol.org

Look also our WikiWikiWeb in http://wiki.tinycobol.org

Talking about COBOL where a lot of information in Internet. In my point of view, the following addresses are be interesting:

COBOL Standards
---------------
http://anubis.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg4/open/n0123.htm (COBOL 85)
http://www.ncits.org/tc_home/j4.htm                 (COBOL 2002)

COBOL News:
-----------
http://www.cobolreport.com
news://comp.lang.cobol

COBOL Tutorials:
----------------
http://www.csis.ul.ie/cobol/default.htm
http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_cobol.html
http://www.ibm.com (search from COBOL)
I'm attached a homepage about COBOL too.. read it!

Free COBOL Compilers
--------------------
http://cobolforgcc.sourceforge.net
http://open-cobol.sourceforge.net
http://www.fujitsu.com

COBOL Links.
------------
http://www.escobol.com

Hope this helps.

Hudson

Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] Please help me

[Hudson R. <hud...@so...>]

Hi Fun, David, Alain,

>
>   UNSTRING WS-FILE1-DATA DELIMITED BY x'09' INTO
>    WS-01-1 WS-01-2 WS-01-3 WS-01-4 ...
>

I create a example called unstring00.cob. Please, Look it.
Also, I create a more advanced example called unstring02.cob. Please, Look it.

> Perhaps you can do :
> $ vim Your_file
> on any record type : l
> a chance you can see at the bottom of the screen
> xxxxxxxxx^Iyyyyyyyyyy^Izzzzzzzzzzz
> 
> if its the case, you can write, in your cobol program
> unstring My_record delimited by "^I" into ....
> 
> In any cases you can see the delimiter with this.

I don't know this way.. Then, I create a example called unstring01.cob and it not work. Could you look it? Where I'm wrong? 

People, this examples are good to insert in our test_suite?

Thanks
Hudson.

Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] Bugs in ACCEPT

[Ferran P. F. <fer...@re...>]

> > 
> > 2. If I don't use nothing type of statement in accept(auto, update, etc), or nothing type of screen I/O, in execution, isn't respected the size of picture and permit that the user type any character (numeric/alphanumeric,etc). Also, function keys don't work.
> > Example program: accept00.cob, accept01.cob
> > 
> The accept routine in basicio, uses fgets for the input (or readline).
> It is impossible to get functions keys using fgets. I will try to modify
> the code, to make fgets accept only the desired length of the input if
> possible. I don't know if it is possible with readline.
> 

I think this is not a good idea because this can break programs already
running that use standard input from files or pipes and upose that extra
chars on an accept are unused. 

What do you think about this ?

Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] programa test23

[Ferran P. F. <fer...@re...>]

This is not a bug, this is a problem of the program, because some fields
have a diferent from and to variables. when we display all the fields,
the walue shown is the value of the from field, and the value you type
is stored on the to field, so when you accept again you se the same
value.=20

A solution to htis is to use the same value on the from and to
statements or use using.

On dv, 2002-09-27 at 17:16, Carlucio Lopes wrote:
>=20
> oi pessoal,
>=20
> no diretorio test.code/t23 existe o programa test23, que explica
> como funciona SCREEN SECTION. acontece que quando =E9 digitado um valor
> e apos avancar, =E9 mostrado o valor anterior, e nao o valor que foi
> digitado.
> atualizei via CVS e este erro persite. O que devo fazer para
> solucionar.
>=20
> translation
> -----------
> hi personal,
>=20
> in paste test.code/t23 there is the program test23, which explains
> as it works SCREEN SECTION. that happens when it is typed a value
> and after prosecuting, it is shown the previous value, and not the
> value that was typed.
> updated via CVS and this mistake persite. what should do to
> solve.
>=20
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Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] Bugs in ACCEPT

[Ferran P. F. <fer...@re...>]

I have now time to see this email.

> I've had problems in ACCEPT verb.
> 
> 1. In execution, the no-echo statement don't work.
> Example program: accept03.cob

For me it works. There is also another diference. When you use no-echo,
all the screen is cleared because we are using the curses library, and
with a normal accept it isn't.

> 
> 2. If I don't use nothing type of statement in accept(auto, update, etc), or nothing type of screen I/O, in execution, isn't respected the size of picture and permit that the user type any character (numeric/alphanumeric,etc). Also, function keys don't work.
> Example program: accept00.cob, accept01.cob
> 
The accept routine in basicio, uses fgets for the input (or readline).
It is impossible to get functions keys using fgets. I will try to modify
the code, to make fgets accept only the desired length of the input if
possible. I don't know if it is possible with readline.

A good solutions could be a parameter to the compiler saying if we want
a program with curses or not. This way we can make all the accepts and
displays work correctly for a user interface, and leave an option to
make programs that could be piped and read from standard input.


> 3. When I press Alt+TAB in any part from my program, it's exit from that operation. Why?
> 
Probaby is a problem between the value configured in your termcap for
this action and what the accept function does with this value. You can
try to get this value and include in the table of key codes handled in
scr_curses.c.  

This action doesn't do anything for me in a xterm, but does things on
the console.(It moves to the second filed in the test23b program)
because it is interpreted by the program like 2 or more keycodes.

Teorically all uknown key codes should be ignored.

[Tiny-cobol-users] TC web pages maintainer

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

Hi Peter and other TinyCOBOL web page maintainers,

David tried to reach you, and couldn't because quota: so I try again
hoping you have solved the problem, and I take the opportunity to
ask you the following:

Could you update the downloads section to reflect the current release?
At the same time, it would probably be easier for future releases,
if the page is broken in instructions (maybe specifying from or until
what release this and that apply), and the download page of sf.net.

Also, Hudson, I recently advanced the status of the project from
alpha to alpha-beta. I don't know the influence on your brazilian
site.

David Essex a écrit :

> Bernard,
>
> FYI, it appears that the new TC web pages maintainer, Peter Burgess, may
> not be reading his e-mail.
>
> I tried to reach him regarding removing my name from the TC web pages,
> but the e-mail bounced.
>
> David Essex
>
> Mail Delivery System wrote:

>  >..

>
>  >     This account is over quota. - mta582.mail.yahoo.com
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > Peter,
>  >
>  > When you get a change to update the TC WEB pages, I was wondering if you
>  > could do the following changes, specifically to 'people.html'.
>  >
>  > Remove my name from the 'Project main contributors, in alphabetical
>  > order:' section.
>  >
>  > I have taken the liberty of enclosing an updated version, as an
>  > attachment, for your convinience.
>  >
>  > Thanks
>  > ...

Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] Please help me

[eurlix <eu...@li...>]

Le Fri, 25 Oct 2002 08:52:00 +0700
sea...@cp... a =E9crit:

>=20
> Hi Hudson
>=20
>       Thank you very mush for your kindness , KEY TAB is TAB of
>       keyboard ,
> it is ASCII code =3D 58 , my problem with I must be convert text file
> from there are separate any field with TAB , but I'd know when I use
> unstring command but don't know delimited by ????? , I use ';'
> cannot , I'm waiting for your answer.
>=20
>
Perhaps you can do :
$ vim Your_file
on any record type : l
a chance you can see at the bottom of the screen
xxxxxxxxx^Iyyyyyyyyyy^Izzzzzzzzzzz

if its the case, you can write, in your cobol program
unstring My_record delimited by "^I" into ....

In any cases you can see the delimiter with this.

Regards,
--=20
Alain Lucari    Eurlix
1, rue Reine Elisabeth von Witellsbach
       (Reine des Belges)
13001 Marseille
FRANCE