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Deskware, Inc.: Description: Deskware COBOL is an interpreter based COBOL language for the Windows95/WindowsNT, Linux, SunOS, Solaris, AIX, SCO, and Macintosh environments. Currently still under development, this product implements some new language features that are very usefull. One such feature is the DELIMITED WITH option on the OPEN statement. This features allows delimited text files to be read into Group Level Data structures. The parsing of the delimiter is handled automatically when this option is used. Using this feature you can quickly develop simple COBOL data conversion programs to convert data that would normally require manually importing data into a database or spreadsheet product and then exporting the data to a file with the required format. Interpreted COBOL programs are very usefull when interfaces need be built to convert delimited text file data provided by one system to a different file format required by the interfacing system. These production interface programs can then be scheduled by your "cron" (Linux/SunOS/Solaris/AIX) or "at" (NT) to run "cobol program.cbl", where program.cbl is the name of your interface program. Another useful way to use Deskware COBOL is with CGI scripts. There are also some additional commands for FTPing files, sending/receiving simple emails, resolving IP addresses, and getting web pages.