Greetings List Lurkers, How about:
# apt-get install open-cobol Maybe not the preferred dialect... Might be fun under Linux Mint. Regards, UberBashKommander Flint On Mon, 6 Apr 2020, Neale Ferguson wrote:
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 23:30:47 +0000 From: Neale Ferguson <[email protected]> Reply-To: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: just: also COBOL GNU COBOL is available - http://download.sinenomine.net/epel/epel-7/s390x/gnucobol-2.2-1.el7.s390x.rpm Neale Ferguson On 4/7/20, 05:12, "Linux on 390 Port on behalf of R P Herrold" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: On Mon, 6 Apr 2020, Rick Troth wrote: > Bonus package (but not new), Gnu COBOL ... > > rsync://chic.casita.net/opt/gnucobol-1.1/ > > rsync://chic.casita.net/opt/gnucobol-2.2/ > > The 1.1 build gets used from time to time. (32-bit Intel Linux) > The 2.2 build is untested. There was an OpenCOBOL in Fedora through their 23 release ... so until about five years ago. The package no longer builds due to the removal of 'db4 support' -- Red Hat / Fedora had lots of words about license changes which I did not see were true, but * shrug * Their circus, their monkeys There is a fairly mechanical writeup in pushing an OpenCOBOL 1. forward into the 2. product at [1]. Once I get a build solved under ClefOS 8 [in process], I'll see about getting it in there as well as in back into ClefOS 7 -- Russ herrold 1. https://sourceforge.net/p/open-cobol/discussion/cobol/thread/d4be157a/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
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