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In November of 2002, HP shocked their customers and announced they would be discontinuing the beloved line of HP 3000 mini-computers. As it happens we had originally designed Kobol with support for the HP version of the COBOL standard but hadn't really decided what we were going to do with it. We started getting a lot of inquires about our ability to support the HP version and so we decided to release it as an optional plug in.

While this plug in is oriented towards people migrating from the HP 3000, there is one very cool extension to COBOL that HP made, and that was their macros. Macros allow you to make predefined code that can take replacement parameters, it is extremely useful, and mostly self explanatory, you can see an old article written by our President on the topic and some interesting uses of it here. You might want this plug in just to get access to the macros, they are extremely powerful and help make for some modular, reusable code.

Features

The MPE compatibility option in Kobol enables the following:

• CALL INTRINSIC*
  There is a replacement for the SYSINTR, called COBINTR*.


• .LOC. and .LEN. pseudo intrinsics.


• The formatting of CURRENT-DATE, WHEN-COMPILED and TIME-OF-DAY is made compatible with the MPE definition.


• Program switches SW0 thru SW15 are recognized.


• The CONDITION-CODE feature is recognized. (It generates a call to CCODE ())


• Backslashes are recognized to indicate parameters passed by value in a CALL.


• $INCLUDE is supported.


• $SET and $IF are supported.


• $DEFINE, $PREPROCESSOR, and macro expansion are supported.


• $CONTROL SUBPROGRAM and $CONTROL ANSISUB are supported.
  The compiler will default to compiling a main program, even without the '-M' option.


• When a file (either source file or copy member) is not found, Kobol will try the filename cut to 8 positions and without the group and account names.


• Octal constants are supported.

* The Kobol package does NOT contain an MPE intrinsics emulation library. The compiler will correctly translate CALL INTRINSIC constructs to their C equivalent in the intermediate C-code. However, an MPE intrinsics emulation library must be provided by the user. Also, the program will include the file 'intrinsics.h'. This file must also be provided by the user.

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MPE (HP 3000)

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KOBOL Versions: Eclipse US$ 39.95 MPE US$ 199.95 CD Set US$ 74.95 Download US$ 59.95 Debugger US$ 24.95

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