[open-cobol-list] PIC not allowed

[Haroldo Stenger]

hi !

I've just discovered open cobol , and I'm amazed. Big THANK YOU to you. 

I think I'll ask a lot of questions, trying to get my old RM COBOL 85 system fully compiled by Open cobol.

The first of which is : Even if the code below compiles fine in RM COBOL 85 , it gets me a syntax error , even if I put -std=cobol85 in the cobc command line:

       01 CAF-NUMERO PIC 999 COMP-1.
       01 CAF-ALFANUM-1 REDEFINES CAF-NUMERO.
           05 CAF-ALFANUM-2 PIC X.
           05 CAF-ALFANUM PIC X.

The idea there is to split a number.

Is there a way that I can make the code compile ? 

best regards ,

haroldo