Re: [open-cobol-list] Small addition for OpenCOBOL Programmers Guide

[john Culleton]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:50:08 +0100
vince <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Tuesday 10 Apr 2012 21:34:09 john Culleton wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:25:38 +0100
> > 
> > vince <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > '/' are not an accepted character, which is used to eject page on
> > > printing and as the compiler does not really produce full
> > > reporting (other than via the -P flag) it would not get used so
> > > sounds reasonable that it is not liked :)
> > 
> > I am as usual confused. Is the -P flag valid for Open Cobol? It
> > doesn't work for me.
> 
> hmm.let see:
> 
> -----------------
> address@hidden common]$ ls -la sys002.*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 vince vince 96427 2012-04-09 23:37 sys002.cbl
> address@hidden common]$ cobc -m -P sys002.cbl
> address@hidden common]$ ls -la sys002.*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 vince vince  96427 2012-04-09 23:37 sys002.cbl
> -rw-r--r-- 1 vince vince 120017 2012-04-10 21:48 sys002.lst
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 vince vince 178075 2012-04-10 21:48 sys002.so*
> -----------------
> 
> Works here.
> 

My results:
Bash-4.1$ cobc -P -x -fixed hello.cbl
cobc: unrecognized option '-P'


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