Forum Post: RE: Printer Redirection
The assign-printer() compiler directive will cause the behavior of "assign to printer" to match RM/COBOL behavior, that is, the access name for the file will be the same as the COBOL file-name. To...
View ArticleForum Post: calling managed from native
I'm using a product called MPACT from ESI. With MPACT I am able to create screens for our users to interact with. It also allows gives me places where I can interact with the dialog. The...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: calling managed from native
Forgot to mention that this was working until yesterday. The problem started after I recompiled both the MPACT program and the winform program.
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Printer Redirection
I forgot to mention that on Linux, the parentheses may need to be escaped (assign-printer\(\)) or replaced with quotes to resolve shell issues.
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Printer Redirection
Another good solution for shell issues with parentheses would to be to embed the assign-printer() directive in the source program with a $SET statement. That way, you won't forget to specify it on...
View ArticleForum Post: Document Scanners
I am a retired Programmer that primarily codes for RM/Cobol. I have recently been contacted by one of the companies I worked for before I retired. They use programs written in RM/Cobol (6.09.04) on an...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Printer Redirection
Thanks for all your suggestions ... I could not get, $set assign-printer($Linux.Environment.Variable), to work. But I did get , ASSIGN TO PRINTER"$Linux.Environment.Variable", to work. I'm probably...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Printer Redirection
I'm not sure you understood that the text between the parentheses in "$set assign-printer()" should be empty. That is what causes RM/COBOL-like behavior. That is, when there's no suggested name, the...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Printer Redirection
I tired it both ways ... leaving it empty and by trying to set it to a specific filename or environment variable. It was almost like the set command wasn't working. But I know it can work, because I...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: calling managed from native
This appears to be a difference in the way that the command-line is returned between a native program and a managed program. In a managed program, even a console application extra spaces are removed...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: editing dos 737 character set on visual studio 2012
If you right-click on the source file in Solution Explorer you can select Open with... and then select Source Code Text Editor with Encoding (which can be set as default) and then select the Greek...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: calling managed from native
Not sure what I am doing wrong. Here is what I tried. I have 2 scenarios. I didn't try the quotes because if I go this route I only have to change one program. Thanks Scenario 1 01...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: calling managed from native
In scenario 1 you are doing: set passed-to-program2 to type Environment::CommandLine. accept passed-to-program2 from command-line. where you should only be...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: editing dos 737 character set on visual studio 2012
Thank you very match for your quick answer. This works like a charm. Do you know how can keep Greek 737 as the default encoding when I open a project with double click?
View ArticleForum Post: VCE on Linux
Dear Sirs, Is there an special Linux/Unix Installation media or We can use the Windows Installation Media ??? Many Thaks in Advanced PJM
View ArticleForum Post: EXE getting error in runtime environment, works in Visual Studio
I am compiling and running this program in Visual Studio 2010, version 2.2. It runs to completion when running with a config file setting the environment variables. When I move the EXE to the runtime...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: EXE getting error in runtime environment, works in Visual Studio
While I was posting this, the hardware team upgraded the runtime to the same version, and that seems to have taken care of the problem. At least the program completes now. Thanks!
View ArticleForum Post: RE: VCE on Linux
Visual COBOL for Eclipse can be installed under Windows, RedHat Linux or SUSE Linux. Each has its own installer package so you must download the correct one for your requirements. Visual COBOL...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: editing dos 737 character set on visual studio 2012
You can set it to use Source Code Text Editor with Encoding as default but I am not sure if you can actually set a particular encoding to use, at least I cannot find a way to do this. Perhaps you...
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