File 120 - File processing with COBOL/WATBOL : part 2 / Cooper, Cowan, Dirksen, and Graham.

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File processing with COBOL/WATBOL : part 2 / Cooper, Cowan, Dirksen, and Graham.

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SCA190-GA165-6-120

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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 and PhD from the University of Waterloo in Applied Mathematics in 1961 and 1965 respectively. He joined the Faculty of the University of Waterloo in 1961 and was the first chair of the Dept. of Applied Analysis and Computer Science, now the School of Computer Science (1967 to 1972) and also served as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Mathematics (1974 to 1978). Donald D. Cowan is Director of the Computer Systems Group, a computer science research group at the University of Waterloo in which he has been involved since the early 1960's.

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A manual titled, "File processing with COBOL/WATBOL: part 2" 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 techniques, and to illustrate their implementation using the COBOL language." The manual is printed in two parts. Part 2 covers in detail the applications-oriented subjects such as sorting, file maintenance and report generation. Part 2 is one hundred and forty-two pages.

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Donated by Dr. Donald D. Cowan in 2004.

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Part 1 of the manual, "File processing with COBOL/WATBOL" can be found in the file linked in the related materials note.

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WATBOL is a teaching compiler for the COBOL programming language developed in 1969 at the University of Waterloo. - Information via Wikipedia: WATBOL

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Described by CW and edited by JB 2005.
Revised by NM 2023.

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