Title and statement of responsibility area
Title proper
File processing with COBOL/WATBOL: part 1 / Cooper, Cowan, Dirksen, and Graham.
Level of description
File
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Dates of creation area
Date(s)
Archival description area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Donald D. Cowan is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus (1999) and Adjunct Professor in the School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario. He received a BASc in Engineering Physics from the University of Toronto in 1960 and an MSc ... »
Scope and content
A manual titled, "File processing with COBOL/WATBOL: part 1, by Donald Cowan, R.H. Cooper, Paul H. Dirksen, and James Wesley Graham. According to the introduction "the purpose of this text was to introduce some of the most common file-processing ... »
Notes area
Immediate source of acquisition
Donated by Dr. Donald D. Cowan in 2004.
Language of material
- English
General note
Part 2 of the manual, "File processing with COBOL/WATBOL" can be found in the file linked in the related materials note.
General note
WATBOL is a teaching compiler for the COBOL programming language developed in 1969 at the University of Waterloo. - Information via Wikipedia: WATBOL
Access points
Name access points
- Cooper, R.H. (Author)
- Cowan, Donald D. (Author)
- Dirksen, Paul H. (Author)
- Graham, J. Wesley (James Wesley) (Author)
- University of Waterloo (Publisher)
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Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Described by CW and edited by JB 2005.
Revised by NM 2023.
Language of description
- English