Re: CoBOL moved to OO

From: Richard (riplin_at_Azonic.co.nz)
Date: 01/02/04 

Date: 1 Jan 2004 19:30:54 -0800

"James J. Gavan" <jjgavan@shaw.ca> wrote

> Yes, and has nothing to do with OO or GUIs. You had better contact the U. of Bellingham
> ,Wa for an enhancement to Windows Explorer, (to get a file listing),

Yes it is to do with GUIs, or specifically with the way MS chose to
implement their GUI and the whole of Windows.

They wanted to make commands lines as difficult as possible to get at
and use to make everyone use clicky-pointy things.

eg they hid DOSKEY away and didn't even mention that it could be used
to make the command line usable.

> or the 'Run' box. to recognize the old DOS commands..

It does, but you have to know what a command is.
 
> From the desktop I tried Start--->Run----> "dir c:\ucs\1-bin\*.cpy > files.txt" ---->
> <Enter> - replied, "Can't find program DIR".

That is because DIR is not a 'program', but a built-in command in
command.com. You can do it with other file listing programs (usually
somewhat better) or with:

      "command /c dir c:\... >files.txt
 
 
> As a rider - using the MS PWB Editor that came with MS COBOL versions 4 and 5 (re-badged
> MF V 3), within the Editor I can bring up a command line that let's me do "dir
> c:\ucs\1-bin\*.cpy > files.txt" - but again it's text not GUI.

That is a DOS program that is already running under a copy of
command.com as a DOS box.

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