Indirect: ocfaq.info-1: 0 ocfaq.info-2: 280344  Tag Table: (Indirect) Node: Top0 Node: OpenCOBOL FAQ153 Node: OpenCOBOL2229 Node: What is OpenCOBOL?3156 Node: What is COBOL?3699 Node: How is OpenCOBOL licensed?4091 Node: What platforms are supported by OpenCOBOL?4816 Node: Are there pre-built OpenCOBOL packages5427 Node: What is the most recent version of OpenCOBOL?6455 Node: How complete is OpenCOBOL?6782 Node: Will I be amazed by OpenCOBOL?8047 Node: Who do I thank for OpenCOBOL?8448 Node: Does OpenCOBOL include a Test Suite?9090 Node: Does OpenCOBOL pass the NIST Test Suite?37037 Node: What about OpenCOBOL and benchmarks?39598 Node: Can OpenCOBOL be used for CGI?40289 Node: Can OpenCOBOL be used for production applications?45745 Node: Where can I get more information about COBOL?47085 Node: Where can I get more information about OpenCOBOL?47761 Node: Can I help out with the OpenCOBOL project?48175 Node: Is there an OpenCOBOL mailing list?48978 Node: Where can I find more information about COBOL standards?49681 Node: Do you know any good jokes?50122 Node: History52307 Node: What is the history of COBOL?52613 Node: What are the Official COBOL Standards?54420 Node: What is the development history of OpenCOBOL?56266 Node: What is the current version of OpenCOBOL?57195 Node: Using OpenCOBOL58903 Node: How do I install OpenCOBOL?61779 Node: What are the configure options available for building OpenCOBOL?62374 Node: Does OpenCOBOL have any other dependencies?69084 Node: How does the OpenCOBOL compiler work?70774 Node: What is cobc?80279 Node: What is cobcrun?80556 Node: What is cob-config?81495 Node: What compiler options are supported?82259 Node: What dialects are supported by OpenCOBOL?87441 Node: What are the OpenCOBOL compile time configuration files?88627 Node: Do you have a reasonable source code skeleton for OpenCOBOL?92340 Node: What is ocdoc?96481 Node: Does OpenCOBOL support any SQL databases?111223 Node: What are the OpenCOBOL RESERVED WORDS?112386 Node: 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Node: Does OpenCOBOL implement Report Writer?251055 Node: Does OpenCOBOL implement LINAGE?251410 Node: Does OpenCOBOL implement any Intrinsic FUNCTIONs?252062 Node: ABS254189 Node: ACOS254394 Node: ANNUITY254831 Node: ASIN255575 Node: ATAN256018 Node: FUNCTION BYTE-LENGTH256454 Node: CHAR258834 Node: CONCATENATE259965 Node: COS260160 Node: CURRENT-DATE260648 Node: DATE-OF-INTEGER261051 Node: DATE-TO-YYYYMMDD261502 Node: DAY-OF-INTEGER262859 Node: DAY-TO-YYYYDDD263360 Node: E263706 Node: EXCEPTION-FILE263863 Node: EXCEPTION-LOCATION264201 Node: EXCEPTION-STATEMENT264753 Node: EXCEPTION-STATUS265264 Node: EXP267161 Node: EXP10267317 Node: FACTORIAL267470 Node: FRACTION-PART267641 Node: INTEGER267822 Node: INTEGER-OF-DATE267997 Node: INTEGER-OF-DAY268189 Node: INTEGER-PART268384 Node: FUNCTION LENGTH268575 Node: FUNCTION LOCALE-DATE268778 Node: LOCALE-TIME268990 Node: LOG269172 Node: LOG10269323 Node: LOWER-CASE269477 Node: MAX269641 Node: MEAN269790 Node: MEDIAN269937 Node: 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CBL_OC_NANOSLEEP OpenCOBOL library routine?307872 Node: Can I run background processes using OpenCOBOL?308556 Node: Can I use ctags with OpenCOBOL?309521 Node: What about debugging OpenCOBOL programs?310370 Node: Some debugging tricks312969 Node: Is there a C interface to OpenCOBOL?314681 Node: What are some idioms for dealing with C char * data from OpenCOBOL?315203 Node: Does OpenCOBOL support COPY includes?317631 Node: Does OpenCOBOL support WHEN-COMPILED?318262 Node: What is PI in OpenCOBOL?318769 Node: Does OpenCOBOL support the Object features of the 2002 standard?319368 Node: Does OpenCOBOL implement PICTURE 78?319728 Node: Does OpenCOBOL implement CONSTANT?320162 Node: What source formats are accepted by OpenCOBOL?320631 Node: Does OpenCOBOL support continuation lines?321983 Node: Does OpenCOBOL support string concatenation?324079 Node: Does OpenCOBOL support D indicator debug lines?325062 Node: Does OpenCOBOL support mixed case source code?326714 Node: What is the shortest OpenCOBOL program?329090 Node: What is the shortest Hello World program in OpenCOBOL?329469 Node: How do I get those nifty sequential sequence numbers in a source file?330105 Node: Is there a way to count trailing spaces in data fields using OpenCOBOL?332309 Node: Is there a way to left justify an edited numeric field?333741 Node: Is there a way to detemermine when OpenCOBOL is running ASCII or EBCDIC?335434 Node: Is there a way to determine when OpenCOBOL is running on 32 or 64 bits?336152 Node: Does OpenCOBOL support recursion?336854 Node: Does OpenCOBOL capture arithmetic overflow?339183 Node: Can OpenCOBOL be used for plotting?341325 Node: Notes347120 Node: big-endian347312 Node: little-endian347712 Node: ASCII348444 Node: DSO349171 Node: gdb349348 Node: GMP349620 Node: Authors349877 Node: Maintainers and Contributors350579 Node: ChangeLog350898  End Tag Table