Message from @^Kevin^
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then yo ucan do normal reads with cobol and its all set
I was showing someone the basics of cobol and they completely forgot and didn't know about the priming read
thru the entire input and output off
program blew up
I had a cobol teacher talking about a special method to avoid the priming read needed for cobol, but it was overly complicated and not worth doing
its basically getting your first record/setting it to read the first record
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the point is that cobol doesn't work without the priming read
and if you think I'm not an expert in computer info systems, yhour wrong, I am
I know what I'm talking about
he asked what a priming read is
you need a priming read to get cobol to work
I said its getting your first record and/or setting it to read the first record
I believe its actgually grabbing that first record
the loop doesn't work without doing that priminig read
I'm well aware of how programming works
I'm not here to play 20 questions about my knowledge of programming
I've been retired for many years
you can think what you want, I already proved it
I told you I was retired
not if you answered it correctly
I could pull out my cobol manual and quote you pages out of it, you wouldn't believe I own books
I answered the priming question correctly
you still don't beleive it
yea, I kept all my old college books
yea, that isn't going to happen
I don't take and share pics off my cellphone
huge hassle to figure out how to do it for starters
I'd have to upload the image
its ah uge fricking pain
I have a phone
*looks at the plus sign next to the text box*
you didnt answer it correctly, it was rather vague if not wrong
my phone is seriously acting up
do you want to cancel home
I didn't see any +
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next to where you type messages
its right next to the thing you see your texts one