This disk contains 1) this README file (readme.txt),
 2) all of the practice programs for STRUCTURED COBOL 
PROGRAMMING, 8th edition, by Nancy Stern and Robert 
A. Stern as well as two additional programs,one from 
p.25-26 and one from p.157 (in a folder called "programs"),
3) data files for all the programming assignments, in a folder 
called "data", and 4) year 2000-compliant versions of all
the programs that are in the "programs" folder; these are in 
a folder called "newy2kprograms".

The practice programs are called CHxxpp.cbl where xx is the
chapter number.  These are ascii files.  If your compiler
uses COBOL source programs with a .cbl file extension, then
these programs can be translated as is.  If your compiler
uses COBOL source programs with a .cob or other file extension,
then rename each program so that it has the appropriate extension.
Depending upon your compiler you may also have to change the
ASSIGN clauses to specify compiler-specific filenames.  If you
are using a PC compiler, ASSIGN clauses for sequential files must
include the ORGANIZATION IS LINE SEQUENTIAL clause.


The data files are called Cxxyy with a .dat or .mst file extension.
xx refers to the chapter and yy to the programming assignment in that
chapter.  Thus, C0406.dat is the data file for programming assignment
six in Chapter 4.

As noted, the program files are in a PROGRAM subdirectory and the data 
files are in a DATA subdirectory.  The programs in the newy2kprograms 
folder have names similar to those in the programs folder.

If you have any questions about these files, feel free to contact the
authors via the internet at acsnns@hofstra.edu.