[open-cobol-list] Cobcurses installation problem.

[John Culleton]

David Essex on the TC list suggested that I use cobcurses to replace the 
missing screen section in OC.  It blew up on compile. A literal laden with 
hidden tab characters ended up with the following three lines:
  10  SCR-0015 PIC X(023)
      VALUE "
      3.Author:".

The error message refers to the fact that AUTHOR is not in COBOL 2002.   There 
are lots of such literals so I hesitate to debug by putting everything on one 
line.  In legacy layout one would use a "-" in column 7 but of course this is 
in free form.  The Makefile generates this error message:

cobc -c -Wall -Wno-call-params  -std=cobol2002 -I../copybk -free 
sd002010.cob -o sd002010.o
SD002010-WS.cbl:36: Error: Author does not conform to COBOL 2002

Now I would normally post this to the SourceForge help forum for Cobcurses but 
somehow I am snakebit there also.  I have password problems even though I 
jumped through all the account creation hoops required by SourceForge. 

Does anyone have experience with cobcurses? Is it worth the trouble? I have 
Slackware 12 Linux.   My OC alternatives are to try some sort of cgi 
interface, or Tcl/Tk, or whatever. 

-- 
John Culleton
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