Sample programs

ACUCOBOL-GT includes many sample programs in the standard release materials. These programs demonstrate general and specific features of the system and measure some aspects of system performance. Many of these programs can serve as generic templates for developing similar functionality in your programs.

Some of the sample programs provided with ACUCOBOL-GT are stand-alone programs, designed to be run at the command line. Examples include:

• TOUR.CBL (demonstrates features of the compiler)
• IOBENCH.CBL (provides benchmark statistics)
• GENMENU.CBL (creates COBOL code for menu bars)

Special instructions for compiling "iobench.cbl" are found in the first few lines of its source file.

Some of the sample programs can either be called from another program or run from the command line:

• CALC3.CBL (provides a pop-up calculator)
• NOTEPAD.CBL (offers a pop-up notepad for notes and reminders)

Many of the sample programs are subroutines that must be called from another program. You can call them from "tour.cbl" or from your own application:

• MESSAGE.CBL (shows how to send up to three lines of text to the user and receive a standard numeric response code)
• MENUBAR.CBL (demonstrates pop-up and static menu bars)
• MENUBAR2.CBL (demonstrates pop-up and static menu bars for graphical environments)
• PRNTSCRN.CBL (shows how to print screens using the ACCEPT FROM SCREEN verb)