Yes thanks bit as others have mentions C isn't licensed at the installation and the number of COBOL programmers who do know c is less than the number of Assembler types out there. I have found that the senior COBOL types have over the years have picked up assembler (little bits) as it is needed for real debugging at times.
Ed --- On Tue, 1/13/09, Thomas David Rivers <riv...@dignus.com> wrote: ----------SNIP-------------------------- > Just to add a quick note to that, a popular option > for our users is to write a quick-n-dirty C function > to handle the 64-bit data (directly callable from 31-bit > COBOL). > > I'm just suggesting an alternative to an assembly program > that our users have found helpful. > > - Dave Rivers - > > -- > riv...@dignus.com > ----------SNIP------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html