In <1344012753.76726.yahoomail...@web122103.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>, on 08/03/2012 at 09:52 AM, Frank Swarbrick <frank.swarbr...@yahoo.com> said:
>The program was written in pre-COBOL II (COBOL 85) syntax. >At that time the REMARKS paragraph valid (I'm guessing as an IBM >extension), No. >and everything following it (until the next valid phrase) was >treated as, well, remarks (a.k.a. comments). AFAIK that was part of the original language design from the CODASYL SRC. It's certainly how COBOL (F) worked back in OS/360. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN