Microsoft KB Archive/31203

Paragraph Size Limitation Causes “Non-Numeric Data” Error

PSS ID Number: Q31203 Article last modified on 04-21-1993

2.20 | 2.20 MS-DOS | XENIX

Summary: MS COBOL Version 2.2 for MS-DOS and MS COBOL Version 2.2 for XENIX appear to have a paragraph size limitation. When a single paragraph label is commented out in a small program (i.e., 333 lines), the program fails at run time with a “Non-Numeric Data” error. When you uncomment the label, the results are as desired. To work around this problem, break large paragraphs into a number of smaller paragraphs. This problem has been fixed in COBOL 3.0.

Additional reference words: 2.20 Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1993.