Micro Focus Object COBOL™ for UNIX

Object COBOL User Guide



MERANT™

Issue 5a
August 1999


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Preface

This COBOL User Guide explains how to use the tools in your COBOL system.

Audience

You should be familiar with the COBOL language and with your operating system. You should read the Getting Started book and be familiar with the COBOL development cycle described in the User Guide before reading other books in the book set.

Environments

Micro Focus COBOL systems are available for DOS, Windows, Windows 95, Windows NT, and OS/2 V2.1 or later, and for many varieties of UNIX. Both 32-bit and 16-bit versions are available (16-bit is not available on UNIX).

Some of the books supplied with this COBOL system are generic across all these environments. Other books are specific to your operating system, but might contain some generic chapters. The chapter Welcome! in the Getting Started book explains this in detail.

Conventions

In the books, unless otherwise stated:

Side Headings

In a generic book or chapter, text that does not apply to all supported environments and COBOL systems is marked by a side heading in the left margin. A side heading applies to the paragraph it is next to, unless it is next to the first paragraph in a section, in which case it applies to that whole section.

The following examples of side headings show what they mean:

UNIX:
This text applies to the 32-bit COBOL system on UNIX.

DOS, Windows and OS/2:
This text applies to the 16-bit or 32-bit COBOL system on DOS, Windows, Windows 95, Windows NT, and OS/2 V2.1 or later.

16-bit:
This text applies to the 16-bit COBOL system on DOS, Windows, Windows 95, Windows NT, and OS/2 V2.1 or later.

32-bit:
This text applies to the 32-bit COBOL system on UNIX, Windows 95, Windows NT, and OS/2 V2.1 or later.

32-bit for Windows NT and OS/2:
This text applies to the 32-bit COBOL system on Windows 95, Windows NT, and OS/2 V2.1 or later.

Notation

The notation used in the books is as follows:

Command Lines

The notation used to describe the format of command lines is as follows:

Notes