| James J. Gavan 2006-07-09, 3:55 am |
| William M. Klein wrote:
> 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.
>
> ***
>
> Does this help?
>
Oui. Merci bien.
Jimmy
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