Cobol browser for Windows

[Eugenie & Remco van Drie]

Hi everybody,

I am a Cobol programmer on the Compaq NSK (Tandem) mainframe and would like
to have a Cobol browser. When I have FTPed the Cobol source I would like to
see the program structure in an easy way. For instance that it is
automatically indented. Narrative can be easily toggled on/off. Jump to
subroutines with a mouse click or key and backwards.

Does anybody know a program that can handles the described functionality?
Preferably a program in the public domain (shareware or freeware)

Thanks

Remco

[Oscar T. Grouch]

Visual SlickEdit (http://www.slickedit.com) can provide some of this
functionality 'out of the box'. It'll give you a list of paragraph/section
headings that you can click on to navigate around, colorize COBOL syntax,
de-emphasize comments and the like. It also has integrated ftp so you can
save and restore to the Tandem box via ftp from within the editor. It also
supports a scripting language that will allow you to write macros for
selectively hiding comments, or load the source from a called subroutine,
but I think you'll find the colorization negates the need to hide comments.

Merant Revolve (http://www.merant.com) can be used if you want to be able to
navigate through a full system, but I don't know if it's parser can handle
Tandem COBOL.

Neither is free though.

Karl

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