[open-cobol-list] Newline on files produced by OpenCOBOL programs

[Joe Robbins]

Hello Vincent

 

You wrote:

<<  Please, please avoid changing the code that effects Line Sequential files that have LF/CR equivalents installed for Linux or Osx systems as all this does is create a blank line between each printed line and is very non standard. 

Of course LF/CR is correct for Windows systems. >>.

I have been checking this and it appears:

 

    1.    OpenCOBOL fileio LINE SEQUENTIAL appends '\n' to each line written. It uses the standard fileio special characters - '\f' to throw the page, '\n' to advance a line, etc. Their is no alternative provision for WIN32, etc in the code. I know this results in 0x0a (LF) when running on LINUX. I expect that when run on Windows, 0x0d0a (CR + LF) - but I haven't checked this yet. The only reference to '\r' I can find is to skip or ignore it when reading LINE SEQUENTIAL.

 

    2.    I have just re-run the SQ section of the COBOL85 ANSI test suite for OpenCOBOL and Micro Focus, both on LINUX platforms. On Micro Focus every line in ALL logs has a CR. So for example when viewing with "vi" any log file, you see ^M displayed at the end of each line.  I don't know whether this is configurable in Micro Focus.

 

    3.    Most print drivers, utilities etc will handle either convention: CR + LF and LF. So I am not sure why this becomes an "issue".

 

I think I remember you saying you had patched OpenCOBOL to fix this problem. Any code fragments illustrating what you fixed would help me double check fileio  is now OK.

 

Regards:    Joe Robbins

 

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