Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 17:47:44 -0500 (CDT)
From: MARK JACOBSON <Mark.Jacobson@uni.edu>
Subject: No LABELS clauses...
To: 810-034-01@uni.edu

Hi Visual Basic students,    <-- Oops!  COBOL students, not VB students! 

     Do NOT use the LABELS clauses for COBOL.  LABELS ARE STANDARD or 
LABELS ARE OMITTED clauses are NOT needed for disk files on modern 
operating systems.             ---

     We will talk about labels when we get to the file processing portion
of the course in July.  Magnetic tape files (as opposed to those stored on
disk drives or on your diskettes) sometimes still require that the COBOL 
programmer tell in the program whether the magnetic tape has Standard labels
or if labels are omitted or if the Labels are a specialized non-standard
type of labes.

     Also, the name of the data file is:   c0407.dat and should be in 
your cobol folder (subdirectory).

     The name of the input data file is c ZERO FOUR ZERO SEVEN dot dat
                                        c  0    4    0     7    .  dat
     Make sure to use 0 instead of O, 
                          i.e. ZERO instead of OH.
     
     When you login to the chaos computer, type h or type history
                                                -         -------
and see the commands you did on Monday in the lab class.

     cd cobol              <---- Moves you down into your cobol folder
     ls                    <---- Shows you your files and file names
     pico prog1.cob        <---- To create or to continue working on the
                                    the program 1 assignment.
     cobol prog1.cob       <---- To compile it and create prog1.lst, and
                                    if you are lucky, prog1.run
     runcbl prog1.run      <---- To run your program, if it compiled OK.
     ls                    <---- To see if output file got created
     ls -l                 <---- To see size of output file and date/time too.
     more NEWMASTER        <---- To look at NEWMASTER file that was created.
                                    See next 3 lines for why " more NEWMASTER "
     Select New-Master-Out 
         Assign To "NEWMASTER"         <------ This name can be WHATEVER in " "
              Organization is Line Sequential.                  --------
              -------------------------------
     I will be glad to answer questions about the Friday assignment before
and during class tommorrow, so feel free to benefit the entire class by
asking any questions about COBOL or Unix or programming that are confusing
to you.

     Time to head home for supper and 6:30 p.m. Seinfeld rerun!

     Mark