| William M. Klein 2006-07-08, 9:55 pm |
| Others will correct me where my memory is faulty.
X/Open *was* a consortium of vendors and users who were defining "open systems"
(but really Unix Variations). The current descendent is "Open Group" - see
http://www.opengroup.org/
You can still get a copy (free) of the X/Open COBOL specification from:
http://www.opengroup.org/bookstore/catalog/c192.htm
It was BASED on the '85 Standard but includes things like Accept/Display/Screen
Section, literal concatenation, file-sharing/record-locking, national language
support.
At one time, Micro Focus, IBM, RM (and/or Liant), and AcuCOBOL all had
"conforming" implementations - and I think all of those participated in the
X/Open COBOL group.
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Does this help?
--
Bill Klein
wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com
"James J. Gavan" <jgavandeletethis@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:_YXrg.132524$iF6.91328@pd7tw2no...
> William M. Klein wrote:
> OK Bill X/Open 101 :-) In brief exactly what is this X/Open. I've seen it
> referred to again and again - BUT *exactly* what is it ?
>
> Jimmy
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