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Jeff Farkas

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Nov 27, 1998, 3:00:00 AM11/27/98
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In article <01be1a83$d35a48e0$ecb6c5cd@43-sunset-drive>,
coo...@severnapark.com says...
> SSB1c2VkIHRvIGRvIENPQk9MIHByb2dyYW1taW5nIGluIHRoZSBlYXJseSA5MCdzIGFuZCB1c2Vk
> IHByZS1DT0JPTDIgY29kZS4gIEkgYW0gaW50ZXJlc3RlZCBpbiBhbnkgcmVjb21tZW5kYXRpb25z
> IGZvciBib29rcywgcGVyaW9kaWNhbHMgb3Igb3RoZXIgc291cmNlcyBvZiBpbmZvcm1hdGlvbiB0
> aGF0IHdvdWxkIGhlbHAgbWUgdW5kZXJzdGFuZCB0aGUgZGlmZmVyZW5jZXMgYmV0d2VlbiB0aGUg
> Q09CT0wgSSB1c2VkIHRvIGtub3cgYW5kIHRoZSBuZXcgQ09CT0wyIGFuZCBWUyBDT0JPTCBsYW5n
> dWFnZXMuDQoNClRoYW5rcyBpbiBhZHZhbmNlIGZvciB5b3VyIGhlbHAhDQoNCktldmlu
>
>
I seem to have lost my secret decoder ring. If you don't mind please
translate this. Thank you.

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Jeff Farkas
Jeffre...@earthlink.net

Web Site:
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Kevin Cooley

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Nov 28, 1998, 3:00:00 AM11/28/98
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I used to do COBOL programming in the early 90's and used pre-COBOL2 code. I am interested in any recommendations for books, periodicals or other sources of information that would help me understand the differences between the COBOL I used to know and the new COBOL2 and VS COBOL languages.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Kevin

Chris Osborne

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Nov 28, 1998, 3:00:00 AM11/28/98
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Jeff,

Here's the original poster's note. I don't know why my newsreader could
read it when yours couldn't (darn thing, no source code to check through to
figure it out . . .)

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Kevin
Jeff Farkas wrote in message ...

Jeff Farkas

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Nov 28, 1998, 3:00:00 AM11/28/98
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In article <36605...@news3.uswest.net>, chris_n...@yahoo.com
says...

> Jeff,
>
> Here's the original poster's note. I don't know why my newsreader could
> read it when yours couldn't (darn thing, no source code to check through to
> figure it out . . .)
>
> ---------------------
>
Thanks Chris.

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Jeff Farkas
Jeffre...@earthlink.net

William Lynch

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Nov 29, 1998, 3:00:00 AM11/29/98
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Jeff Farkas wrote:
>
> In article <01be1a83$d35a48e0$ecb6c5cd@43-sunset-drive>,
> coo...@severnapark.com says...
> > SSB1c2VkIHRvIGRvIENPQk9MIHByb2dyYW1taW5nIGluIHRoZSBlYXJseSA5MCdzIGFuZCB1c2Vk
> > IHByZS1DT0JPTDIgY29kZS4gIEkgYW0gaW50ZXJlc3RlZCBpbiBhbnkgcmVjb21tZW5kYXRpb25z
> > IGZvciBib29rcywgcGVyaW9kaWNhbHMgb3Igb3RoZXIgc291cmNlcyBvZiBpbmZvcm1hdGlvbiB0
> > aGF0IHdvdWxkIGhlbHAgbWUgdW5kZXJzdGFuZCB0aGUgZGlmZmVyZW5jZXMgYmV0d2VlbiB0aGUg
> > Q09CT0wgSSB1c2VkIHRvIGtub3cgYW5kIHRoZSBuZXcgQ09CT0wyIGFuZCBWUyBDT0JPTCBsYW5n
> > dWFnZXMuDQoNClRoYW5rcyBpbiBhZHZhbmNlIGZvciB5b3VyIGhlbHAhDQoNCktldmlu
> >
> >
> I seem to have lost my secret decoder ring. If you don't mind please
> translate this. Thank you.

Jeff, is the following any better?

-------------------------------------------------------------------

I used to do COBOL programming in the early 90's and used pre-COBOL2
code. I am interested in any recommendations for books, periodicals or
other sources of information that would help me understand the
differences between the COBOL I used to know and the new COBOL2 and VS
COBOL languages.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Kevin

------------------------------------------------------------------

Who's your browser?

Bill Lynch

Jeff Farkas

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Nov 29, 1998, 3:00:00 AM11/29/98
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In article <3660C516...@att.net>, wbl...@att.net says...
> Jeff Farkas wrote:
>
<SNIP>

> Jeff, is the following any better?
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I used to do COBOL programming in the early 90's and used pre-COBOL2
> code. I am interested in any recommendations for books, periodicals or
> other sources of information that would help me understand the
> differences between the COBOL I used to know and the new COBOL2 and VS
> COBOL languages.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help!
>
> Kevin
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Who's your browser?
>
> Bill Lynch

Hi Bill,

I was not using a browser based new reader, that junk came up while
using MicroPlanet's Gravity 2.10. Don't know what happened and it could
be a bug in the software. When I tried NETSCAPE's news reader the
messages came out fine. Strange!!!
>
Thanks for re-posting the message.

Jeff


Tim Oxler

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Nov 30, 1998, 3:00:00 AM11/30/98
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Jeffre...@earthlink.net (Jeff Farkas) wrote:

FWIW, I saw the same gibberish using Free Agent. Then I went to
DejaNews, viewed it via Netscape, and saw the same gibberish. Only
when I clicked on the "text only" option on the DejaNews webpage, did
the decoder ring kick in.

Still haven't figured out the "text only" option on Free Agent.

Tim Oxler
TEO Computer Technologies Inc.
http://www.teo-computer.com
Take the Y2k Quiz
http://www.teo-computer.com/dev/quiz.html

Chris Osborne

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Nov 30, 1998, 3:00:00 AM11/30/98
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>Kevin Cooley wrote in message
<01be1a83$d35a48e0$ecb6c5cd@43-sunset-drive>...

>I used to do COBOL programming in the early 90's and used pre-COBOL2 code.
I am interested in any recommendations >for books, periodicals or other
sources of information that would help me understand the differences between
the COBOL I >used to know and the new COBOL2 and VS COBOL languages.
>
>Thanks in advance for your help!
>
>Kevin
>

Try COBOL Unleashed, COBOL II by Harvey Bookman, or OS/390 Power Programming
(the last two are IBM mainframe only).

Mark0Young

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Dec 1, 1998, 3:00:00 AM12/1/98
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In article <3662b601...@news.teo-computer.com>,
tim....@NOSPAMteo-computer.com (Tim Oxler) writes:

>FWIW, I saw the same gibberish using Free Agent.

I also saw garbage in AOL's WAOL 4.0 software reading the message offline.

Mark A. Young

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