Steve Comstock's point is well made/taken. If you use IBM Enterprise COBOL you are inescapably in an LE environment. You are paying for its overheads whether or not you use its very flexible facilities for allocating and freeing dynamic---stack|heap---storage. Why not then use them?
I don't know that Steve has in fact done this, but they are easy to package as COBOL functions having perspicuous names. The COBOL preprocessor is still a rudimentary thing, but it is well up to that. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
