On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 8:17 AM Paul Flint <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings List Lurkers, > > How about: > > # apt-get install open-cobol > Maybe not the preferred dialect... Might be fun under Linux Mint. >
IIRC, it "compiles" COBOL to C and then compiles the C code. I guess this is OK, but I wonder why they did it that way. > > 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 > > > > Kindest Regards, > > > > ☮ Paul Flint > (802) 479-2360 Home > (802) 595-9365 Cell > > /************************************ > Based upon email reliability concerns, > please send an acknowledgement in response to this note. > > Paul Flint > 17 Averill Street > Barre, VT > 05641 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- People in sleeping bags are the soft tacos of the bear world. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
