[open-cobol-list] Difference in version 2 versus 1.1?

[Michael D. Setzer II]

Recently upgraded my classroom to use the 2 version of gnu cobol, and just 
ran into a difference.

In 1.1 I could send escape character to the output file, but with 2 it fails 
when 
writing to the file. Found if I removed the escape it would write and run fine? 
Eventually, found that I removed the Organization is line sequention it would 
work just fine. Not sure why that would limit the use of escape?

            SELECT REPORT-OUT ASSIGN TO "SCN".
      *            ORGANIZATION IS LINE SEQUENTIAL.


Record sent to file was just to set the printer mode?

        01  HP-SETUP.
      *  Reset Printer
            05 filler           pic x value X"1B".
            05 filler           pic x value 'E'.
      *  Landscape, top margin 1,60 lpp, 8 lines per inch
            05 filler           pic x value X'1B'.
            05 filler           pic x(11) value '&l1o1e60f8D'.
      *  Left margin 0, Right margin 132
            05 filler           pic x value X'1B'.
            05 filler           pic x(8) value '&a0l132M'.
      *  13 point font
            05 filler           pic x value X'1B'.
            05 filler           pic x(5) value '(s13H'.

Easy to fix, but wondering why it does this in version 2, but it had no issue 
in 
1.1.  Also, not sure why removing the line sequential fixes it?

Thanks.




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