Re: [open-cobol-list] Calling a system function in Open Cobol.

[John R. Culleton]

On Monday 26 June 2006 06:07, Roger While wrote:
> Works fine here (0.33 tarball)
> Also works under Cygwin and MSYS/MinGW.
> Here's the genned code (no special OC options) -
>    {
>      {
>        int (*func)();
>        cob_call_params = 1;
>        func = cob_resolve_1 ("system");
>        (*(int *) (b_2)) = func ((unsigned char *)"ls -l");
>      }
>   And here it is with -static option -
>    {
>      {
>        cob_call_params = 1;
>        (*(int *) (b_2)) = system ((unsigned char *)"ls -l");
>      }
>    }
>
> Looks fine to me  :-)
>
However the latest stable version is 32, not 33.
Fop now I'll go with TinyCobol. I have a prejudice in favor of
things that work. 

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