Accessing Floppy Drive thru COBOL

saravanab29 · New User Joined: 28 Apr 2005 Posts: 1 Location: Bangalore

Hi!

Can any one give me a tips on how to access a floppy drive through Cobol programming?

Gnanas SNG · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 4:09 pm Post subject:

Are going to write a file on Floppy disk?

rajeshwarch · New User Joined: 24 Mar 2008 Posts: 4 Location: mumbai

Incase of files on hard disc we write the file control entries like SELECT FILENAME ASSIGN TO DISK, in the same way to access the files on floppy drive file control entries are like SELECT FILENAME ASSIGN TO DISKNAME.
I think it is to be works.

Anuj D. · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:46 pm Post subject:

Hi,

You guys are mixing IBM (Mainframes) & Microsoft terminologies. I would like to ask other way round question...

I've a TAPE drive, in service of Mainframes, would like to use it to store 'Casion Royal' on it..can I?

Unless, you are using a PC version of COBOL, I doubt this

dick scherrer · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 12:11 am Post subject:

Hello,

Anuj D. · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 5:51 am Post subject:

Hi,

To me this