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OT: NZ street crime - bras and knickers 3 31 (10/1/2007 12:46:44 AM) comp.lang.cobol New Zealand man plants garden. Runs string. Attaches plastic bags to string to scare away birds. Okay so far. Women's undergarments start appearing on "clothesline" in reversal of ordinary story. Gardner pla... HeyBub

The pre-interview question... 17 25 (8/23/2007 1:31:54 PM) comp.lang.cobol "The hiring manager described their typical process; Peter would have to answer a screening question to determine his skill level, and if his answer was satisfactory, they'd schedule a face-to-face interview.... HeyBub

Bank may need computer program 2 48 (8/7/2007 1:59:59 PM) comp.lang.cobol http://merkwork.com/images/LOL.jpg ... HeyBub

OT: UK cops surround Lara Croft doll 1 42 (5/15/2007 4:02:53 PM) comp.lang.cobol With pictures. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=455037&in_page_id=1770 ... HeyBub

For Firefox users. 3 42 (11/10/2006 4:29:57 PM) comp.lang.cobol Borged. http://www.msfirefox.com/ ... HeyBub

Y2K is Back! 2 56 (11/9/2006 9:09:59 PM) comp.lang.cobol "Space shuttle Discovery was moved to the launch pad Thursday to await a launch that could be as early as Dec. 6 - an effort to avoid potential New Year's Eve computer glitches. "The worry is that shuttle co... HeyBub

Bomb goes off at Bletchly Park 0 53 (9/7/2006 6:45:50 PM) comp.lang.cobol "With a rumble that turned into a roar, a sound not heard at Bletchley Park for more than half a century, the machine that was at the heart of Britain's wartime code-breaking triumph began to work again." ... HeyBub

[Way OT] Snakes 5 39 (8/31/2006 1:54:35 PM) comp.lang.cobol > From a gun-related newsgroup and posted here to tickle the > imagination of those who have a finely-honed sense of humor: > > --- begin quote > >> "Two live diamondback rattlesnakes were released in an Arizon... HeyBub

Whacko Russian Declines Field Medal 20 26 (8/22/2006 5:56:09 PM) comp.lang.cobol The Nobel Prize of Mathematics, awarded every four years was refused by a Russian recluse who proved the Poincare conjecture, "topologically, a rabbit is the same as a sphere." Not a REAL rabbit, mind you, mo... HeyBub

EOF location? 38 41 (5/27/2006 9:00:15 PM) comp.lang.cobol Anyone know where the EOF is supposed to be located on a PC file? In other words, if Windows reports a file is, say, 100 bytes long, is the EOF (X'1A') supposed to be in the 100th or 101st byte? I've got cop... HeyBub

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[OT] System Conversion - An Overview 23 46 (10/30/2007 9:38:21 AM) comp.lang.cobol As an extension of an earlier thread regarding a COBOL-to-Java conversion... some meanderings. As noted, the core of such a thing is not a technology change, it is a business process change and needs to be ... docdwarf (6044)

The MOVE problem 34 40 (10/30/2007 4:51:19 PM) comp.lang.cobol IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. MOVEX. ENVIRONMENT DIVISION. DATA DIVISION. WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 01 AA. 03 A PIC 9 OCCURS 9. 01 CC. ... simrw (226)

Help with Inspect _src_ replacing all [SPACE]ALPHANUMERIC[SPACE] by space 21 57 (10/31/2007 7:00:39 PM) comp.lang.cobol Hello, I am wondering if anyone knows wether there is a Cobol symbol representation where it can be used in the INSPECT src_var REPLACING all " ALPHANUMERIC " by " " I need to replace a space followed by any ... vferr094 (4)

[OT] Do you have a Knowledge Officer? 87 46 (9/29/2007 3:53:58 AM) comp.lang.cobol I thought the last sentence in this document was rather amusing. http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=202101526 Does anyone in the forum work in a Company the retains a Knowl... dashwood (4370)

Need some Cobol help 5 52 (10/3/2007 6:12:13 PM) comp.lang.cobol I'm a VB programmer and I ran into an old dos program written in cobol. It uses a number of select statements for printers. Here is an example of them. :STARTFG1 SET PVER=1 XCOMMS 16 PORTCON%PVER% 1 1200 7 1... how691 (2)

What matters most when getting a job done? 45 33 (10/4/2007 12:19:01 AM) comp.lang.cobol I think many people here will have thoughts on this topic and may want to vote in the poll. Be quick, it closes soon... http://www.codeproject.com/#poll (Scroll to the bottom of the page) Pete. -- "I used ... dashwood (4370)

Stategy for (Large?) 16bit COBOL code conversion to Net Express 41 55 (10/15/2007 10:32:09 PM) comp.lang.cobol I'm looking for comment on any issues I may encounter in a conversion for Microsoft COBOL V5 (Which was licenced off Micro Focus) and Version 5 of Net Express. Background I am the owner/operator of the comp... greg6242 (6)

So, what about PERFORM...VARYING ? 26 27 (10/22/2007 4:02:47 AM) comp.lang.cobol OK, now that we've explored IF NUMERIC and data validation, how about this: Here's some code I wrote today. It has to sort a table in memory into descending order... *> now sort the table of table names... dashwood (4370)

Cornstarch? 36 50 (10/23/2007 9:55:56 PM) comp.lang.cobol This morning I received an invitation from Fujitsu to attend the Oracle OpenWorld 07 event in San Francisco next month. I would go, but I'm far too busy at the moment. Nevertheless, it was interesting to see... dashwood (4370)

COBOL to Java conversion #2 60 145 (10/29/2007 12:06:19 PM) comp.lang.cobol We are in the business of migrating Unisys COBOL mainframe applications to Unix. Using the same programming language and keeping the code intact is a key element, because we think that there are enough issues t... hjigel (41)