Copybook

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  copybook \copybook\ n.
     a book containing models of good penmanship; used in teaching
     penmanship.
     [WordNet 1.5] copycat

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  copybook
       n : a book containing models of good penmanship; used in
           teaching penmanship

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  copybook
       
           (Or "copy member", "copy module") A
          common piece of {source code} designed to be copied into many
          source programs, used mainly in {IBM} {DOS} {mainframe}
          programming.
       
          In {mainframe} {DOS} (DOS/VS, DOS/{VSE}, etc.), the copybook
          was stored as a "book" in a {source} library.  A library was
          comprised of "books", prefixed with a letter designating the
          language, e.g., A.name for Assembler, C.name for Cobol, etc.,
          because {DOS} didn't support multiple libraries, private
          libraries, or anything.  This term is commonly used by {COBOL}
          programmers but is supported by most {mainframe} languages.
          The {IBM} {OS} series did not use the term "copybook", instead
          it referred to such files as "libraries" implemented as
          "partitioned data sets" or {PDS}.
       
          Copybooks are functionally equivalent to {C} and {C++}
          {include} files.
       
          (1997-07-31)