Re: [open-cobol-list] Unpack NIST test programs.

[Bernard Giroud]

john Culleton a écrit :
> I have downloaded the file 
> newcob.val.Z
> Which contains a suite of COBOL 85 validation programs. Now, on a
> linux system, how do I unpack it? It is not a zip file. It is not
> an ar archive file. It does not seem to be a cpio file. 
>
>   
Assuming you are in an almost empty directory, where you have only the 
downloaded file:

- gunzip  newcob.val.Z (or uncompress which is an alias)

It will leave you with the file newcob.val, which is a sort a library 
sequential text file from which you have to extract all programs. Not so 
straight forward...

David Essex made a few perl scripts to do that, and run the tests to 
check the non regression of TC. I still have them in one of my dev dirs. 
If you need it, I'm sure David will give me the OK to forward it to you 
(unless he has a more recent version ;-) ).

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