[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 06 December 2011]

I'm having some difficulty creating my application library under Windows 7. Prior to upgrading to Win7 I was using an old 16-bit version of the RM/Cobol runtime to create our application libraries (all development was performed using v10.01). However now I'm forced to use a 32-bit or greater version since the 16-bit is not supported on Win7.

So here's what I've got: I have a batch file that we execute to create an application library and a text file that, up until now, would handle all inputs.

Batch file:
ECHO ON
erase mstradd.lst
SET PRINTER=mstradd.LST
erase MyLib.ADD
%rm_program_dir%\\RUNCOBOL %rm_program_dir%\\RMPGMCOM
pause

MyLib.txt
Y
N
MyLib.ADD
App1
App2

It appears that the input redirect is being ignored and I'm forced to enter thru the prompts. I tried using the A command line parameter and this works, however I'm limited to 100 characters:

%rm_program_dir%\\RUNCOBOL RMPGMCOM A='PRINTER, MyLib.ADD, App1, App2'

We have hundreds of objects that we combine into one library; using the input redirection made it very easy to manage and maintain new objects and ones that we'd deprecate.

Any suggestions? How is everyone else creating their object libraries?