Cobol - Re: Survey - "Most compilers" and USAGE COMP (was: Moving display to comput

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Re: Survey - "Most compilers" and USAGE COMP (was: Moving display to comput

Richard

2005-09-20, 6:55 pm

William M. Klein wrote:

> 1) Do you treat "COMP" as a BINARY format?

ICL System 25 Cobol - No.

The System 25 was a development of the Singer System 10 and was a
decimal machine that had no mechanism to deal with binary at the
application program level.

> 4) If you treat COMP as Binary format, do you allocate 1 byte, 2-byte, or other
> for PIC S9(01)

Fujitsu - subject to compiler directive.

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