Re: [open-cobol-list] End of line character.

[Sergey Kashyrin]

John,

Unix "system" call (as well as in NT) will not like CR at the end of the line.
You must put LOW-VALUE as a terminator of your string for that.

Regards,
Sergey

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John R. Culleton" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 6:36 PM
Subject: [open-cobol-list] End of line character.


> Is there a symbolic name in Open Cobol (or in tiny) that represents 
> the end-of line character?
> I am trying to create a string that I can feed to a
> CALL "system"
> statement that will execute a non-cobol program with parameters. Here 
> is what I have thus far:
> MOVE SPACES TO CALLREC. 
>           STRING "bookland.py ", "978160019", SERIAL,
>           " > foorec", ???
>              INTO CALLREC. 
>           CALL "system" USING CALLREC.
>
> The string should look like:
> bookland.py 978160019123 >foorec (CR)
>
> Where the last three digits will vary.  Later on in the logic I open 
> foorec and use some of the results of the above step. 
>
> Possibly the program will work without the explicit end of line but I 
> am assuming not. 
>
> --
> John Culleton
>
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