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- From: lambert@stein.u.washington.edu (D. Lambert)
- Newsgroups: alt.cobol
- Subject: Re: comp-3 and ascii data representation
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 03:20:15 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington
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- If implementaions of Cobol use different file storage formats
- then wouldn't that make data files not portable?
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- Would each Data file from say an IBM implementation have to be converted
- to ascii representation to be read by a cobol program with the same
- file defintions on a DG implementation?
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- I thought that the data was stored the same way. Does the runtime
- system have anything to do with conversion? I know that the runtile
- MLS lock server prevents access to users during conficts with other
- users or security definitions. This prevents corrupting data through
- simultaneous write access to the files.
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- D.M Lambert
- University of WAshington
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