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Developing Compaq COBOL Programs
Compaq COBOL is a powerful optimizing compiler produced by Compaq
Computer Corporation. It operates comfortably in the Compaq common language
environment; it is based on GEM, which is the highly advanced code generator
and optimizer that Compaq uses in its family of languages, which includes
COBOL, C, C++, FORTRAN 77, FORTRAN 90, BASIC, Ada, and PASCAL. In
addition to standard COBOL features, Compaq COBOL includes extensions that
make new application development efficient and effective, with features helpful in
porting legacy COBOL programs to OpenVMS Alpha and Tru64 UNIX systems.
Developing software applications with Compaq COBOL will be a familiar process.
You set up your development environment, create your source, compile, link, and
run. A few of the specific tasks are:
• Choosing a reference format: terminal or ANSI
• Carefully considering Alpha architecture system resources; for example, you
might invest more system resources at compile time to get faster execution at
run time
• Using various system-independent features for program development
1.0.1 Files Installed on Your System
You will have the following directories and files added to your system after a
typical installation:
(drive letter):\ DEC\ COBOL\ Vnn
COBOL_ENV.BAT
COBOL_IVP.BAT
DeIsL1.isu
\ Acrobat31
\ BIN
\ DOCS
\ DOCS_HTML
\ FX32
\ ICD
\ LIB
\ MS_Tools
\ XICD
\ Examples
\ Client_Server
\ IVP
\ Reformat
where nn shows the version and release numbers. For example, for Version 2.7
nn is 27.
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