Re: cobol woes
From: Paulo Vieira (pvieira_at_emporsoft.pt)
Date: 07/27/04
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Date: 27 Jul 2004 01:17:48 -0700
paxsonc001@hawaii.rr.com (Calvin) wrote in message news:<48aee437.0407231652.6c91e86f@posting.google.com>...
> i work at a small school and we have a computer lab setup that we use
> to teach medical computing. we were running a program called medisoft
> that was written in cobol on our old windows 98 machines. we recently
> upgraded to new computers with winxp. the problem is that the old
> software will not run on these computers. the program terminates with
> "main program load failure" what is the cause and what are the
> possible solutions?
>
> Mahalo,
>
> Calvin Paxson
Just a hint:
Check if, on the old boxes, there is an environment variable
"RUNPATH".
This variable contains a list of directories where the runtime will
look for files (either programs, or data files). Without it you'r
limited to a single location.
regards
Paulo Vieira, Emporsoft
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