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1 | 1 | NEWS - user visible changes -*- outline -*-
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| 3 | +* Changes in opensource COBOL 1.2J |
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| 5 | +** Support Feature of Japanese, such as constant and definition of data and operation of data. |
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| 7 | +** New compile option '-assign_external' and variable 'assign_external=[yes|no]'. Set the |
| 8 | + file assign to the EXTERNAL file. |
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| 10 | +** New compile option '-free_1col_aster'. In free format COBOL mode, this option causes the |
| 11 | + compiler to regard as line comment when first column is asterisk for free format COBOL mode. |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | +** New runtime environment variable OC_USERFH, which enable to run user-defined program in |
| 14 | + operation OPEN, CLOSE, DELETE, READ, REWRITE, START, WRITE, COMMIT, ROLLBACK and UNLOCK. |
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| 16 | +** Support currency symbol for Japanese yen, and modify default currency symbol to |
| 17 | + Japanese yen. |
| 18 | + |
| 19 | +** Changed to apply the alphabetic manner as comparison method in case its operands include |
| 20 | + group fields. |
| 21 | + |
| 22 | +** Fixed the problem that INSPECT causes incorrect result in case given the AFTER/BEFORE |
| 23 | + clause with negative value or SIGN SEPARATE field. |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | +** Fixed the problem that value comparison on SIGN SEPARATE fields in IF or EVALUATE |
| 26 | + statements fails treating such field values as if their sign character were a part of |
| 27 | + digits. |
| 28 | + |
| 29 | +** Fixed the problem that applying INITIALIZE on 01-level records in EXTERNAL files causes |
| 30 | + incorrect behavior of following I/O instructions. |
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| 32 | +** Changed the default actions on unhandled SIZE ERROR according to that specified in |
| 33 | + Programmer's Guide. |
| 34 | + |
| 35 | +** Fixed the problem that applying INITIALIZE or MOVE ZERO on numeric field of SIGN SEPARATE |
| 36 | + destroys sign byte. |
| 37 | + |
| 38 | +** Fixed the problem that COPY statement ignores the last line of each copybook when it does |
| 39 | + not end with line break. |
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3 | 41 | * OpenCOBOL 1.0 released
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5 | 43 | * Changes in OpenCOBOL 0.33
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