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Author Re: Cobol 85 Standard
Obnoxious User

2008-03-20, 6:56 pm

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:36:19 +0000, tim wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:18:46 +0000, Obnoxious User wrote:
>
>
> This does illustrate some of the problems with the absurdly long terms
> of copyright. This is an important document and which is now unavailable
> it seems. But I cannot send you a copy because that is not allowed.
>
> If something has been published and is now out of print you should be
> able to copy it.
>


After talking with ANSI I got the the following address:
www.doceng.com

And from what I can tell they have the document for $20. Now
I only have to figure out how to make them accept my credit card.
For some reason US sites just can't deal with foreign letters
and complains that the addresses don't match. Damn it.

OU
Arnold Trembley

2008-03-21, 3:55 am

Obnoxious User wrote:
> (snip)
> After talking with ANSI I got the the following address:
> www.doceng.com
>
> And from what I can tell they have the document for $20. Now
> I only have to figure out how to make them accept my credit card.
> For some reason US sites just can't deal with foreign letters
> and complains that the addresses don't match. Damn it.
>
> OU


At least one of the COBOL documents I saw had a price tag of $179.

This one seems to be the low-price document:
http://www.doceng.com/product.php?p...31&cat=0&page=1

You might also have to register with DOCENG.

I'm not sure who this document is for. I have an old hardcopy of the
IBM VS COBOL II Language Reference manual lying around somewhere. Of
course now I just search IBM's online manuals if forget the exact
syntax of OCCURS DEPENDING ON and SEARCH ALL.

Or else I use this site:
http://mvshelp.net/ref01.htm


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