I'm going to approach this slightly differently. Apologies for being a bit off-topic.
If somebody wants to do some *beginner* type learning of COBOL, then it is possible to do so on a PC for free. There is OpenCOBOL which can be freely downloaded and used. http://opencobol.org/ <quote> OpenCOBOL is an open-source COBOL compiler. OpenCOBOL implements a substantial part of the COBOL 85 and COBOL 2002 standards, as well as many extensions of the existent COBOL compilers. OpenCOBOL translates COBOL into C and compiles the translated code using the native C compiler. You can build your COBOL programs on various platforms, including Unix/Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows. The compiler is licensed under GNU General Public License. The run-time library is licensed under GNU Lesser General Public License. </quote> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCOBOL As stated above, it does require a C compiler. Which is "no big deal" to this Linux user. I have used the above compiler, at work, on my Linux desktop, to compile some simple programs. These programs were written my me on z/OS, and compiled on z/OS using IBM's Enterprise COBOL. Most of them compiled easily, once I removed the data in column 7-80 and then removed the trailing blanks. The blank remove may have been unnecessary. I have a small Perl program which does all this for me. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets® 9151 Boulevard 26 • N. Richland Hills • TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone • [email protected] • www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. 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