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Running the File Conversion Program [ COBOL/HP-UX Compatibility Guide for the Series 700 and 800 ] MPE/iX 5.0 Documentation


COBOL/HP-UX Compatibility Guide for the Series 700 and 800

Running the File Conversion Program 

You can run the file conversion program in either interactive or batch
mode.

To run the file conversion program in interactive mode, you supply the
name of the file after the run command for this COBOL system.  This is
the same as running any other program.  Your COBOL System Reference 
contains more information.

This command causes the display of the following prompt:

     Please enter the input data file name

Enter the name of the RM/COBOL data file to be converted and press Enter.
This file must be the file for which this file conversion program was
generated.

Now the following prompt is displayed:

     Please enter the output data file name

Enter the name of the COBOL system's data file to which the RM/COBOL data
file is to be converted and press Enter.  This name must not be the same
as the RM/COBOL data file.

If any errors occur during conversion, an error message is displayed on
the screen.

To run the file conversion program in batch mode, you use the run command
for your COBOL system, but before you press Enter type also:

     program-file input-file output-file

where:

program-file         is the intermediate or native code file for the file
                     conversion program.

input-file           is the name of the RM/COBOL data file to be
                     converted.

output-file          is the name to be given to the converted data file.



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