On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:34:17 -0500, Ed Gould wrote: >On Jul 19, 2007, at 8:16 PM, Tom Marchant wrote: > >> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:08:50 -0500, Ed Gould wrote: >>> >>> ... They have offsets that are almost impossible to >>> use, probably only SAS and assembler (maybe PL1). >> >> Or COBOL. Or any language that you like. > >We had a excellent COBOL programmer look at the layout and after a >few questions he said he didn't even want to try it. He wasn't even >sure it could be done. I suppose it might be able to, but as he >indicated it wouldn't be easy.
Sure it can be done, and it wouldn't be all that hard. It would take some time, but it's not a particularly difficult thing to do. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
