[open-cobol-list] Extended accept/display and terminal window.

[John R. Culleton]

Just installed the Version 33 tarball. The tests work fine.

I tested the extended ACCEPT/DISPLAY statements (with
positioning) and they also work fine in a Linux terminal session. But
in a terminal window on the KDE gui the program just quits.
apparently ncurses doesn't work there.

I used the following code:
           DISPLAY "TEST FIELD" LINE 15 COLUMN 1.
           ACCEPT  PARENT-KEY LINE 15 COLUMN 20.

I tried REVERSE on the DISPLAY statement but that just errored
off. Is there a guide somewhere that shows the full range of
parameters possible with Open COBOL 33? I am thinking of reverse,
bold, highlight blink, beep and so on. Since these are not in the 
COBOL 85 standard I don't have a good source of information. And
the NIST test suite doesn't cover them. 


-- 
John Culleton