Micro Focus

NAME

ds

DESCRIPTION

The ds command invokes Micro Focus Dialog System.

NOTES

To access the Micro Focus COBOL offerings licensed through Digital Equipment Corporation, the COBDIR environment variable must be set to the path of the installed product and the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable must include the path of the COBOL shared libraries $COBDIR/coblib:

        COBDIR=/usr/lib/cmplrs/cob
        export COBDIR
        LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$COBDIR/coblib
        export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Or in the C shell:

        setenv COBDIR /usr/lib/cmplrs/cob
        setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH $COBDIR/coblib

RELATED INFORMATION

On-line help: cobrun hyhelp

On-line product information:  $COBDIR/docs

Reference documents:

Micro Focus COBOL Developer Suite for UNIX -  QA-5S9AA-GZ

Getting Started (Issue 1, August 1996)
Object COBOL User Guide (Issue 4, August 1996)
Object COBOL Character Tools (Issue 1, August 1996)
Dialog System Character Mode User Guide (Issue 5, September 1994)
Master Index & Glossary (Issue 5, August 1996)
Programmer’s Guide to Writing Programs (Issue 2)
Programmer’s Guide to Creating User Interfaces (Issue 2)
Programmer’s Guide to File Handling (Issue 2)
Programmer’s Guide to Communications (Issue 2)
OO Programming with Object COBOL (Issue 3)
DCE Programmer’s Guide and Reference (Issue 1)
Compatibility Guide (Issue 3, April 1993)
Language Reference (Issue 15, May 1995)
Language Reference -- Additional Topics (Issue 15, May 1995)
Error Messages (Issue 11, May 1995)
Pocket Guide (Issue 9, August 1996)

Commands: cob(1), cobrun(1), tbox(1)