COBOL manuals for Tops-10/TOPS-20??? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

8 Nov 2012

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  I need to deal with modifying some COBOL code in the
Tops-10 and TOPS-20
 usage reporting software, and have no manuals.  Yeah, COBOL is COBOL, but
 the details (what is "DISPLAY-7" as opposed to "DISPLAY-9"?) are
important.
 There are no COBOL manuals on the PDP10 portion of Bitsavers at the moment. 
I wanted to post earlier but was afraid my decades old human memory had some bit rot! And
I never did much COBOL to begin with.

DISPLAY-6 is SIXBIT
DISPLAY-7 is ASCII
DISPLAY-9 is EBCDIC

RECORDING MODE takes precedence over USAGE.

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