I have used of the PL/I preprocessor to modify client's COBOL source programs for many years.
It is at once powerful and expressive; and its support for compile-time arrays, which can be used as lists, makes it easy to 'remember' the things one needs to know in order to make global changes in a source program. (This is particularly important for COBOL because a change made in one division may necessitate making collateral changes in another one. I have never heard of the preprocessor being licensed separately from the Enterprise PL/I compiler, and I suspect that it would be difficult to package independently, but you could ask IBM if this is possible John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
