Hello! And as it happens the State of NJ was looking for programmers in COBOL. I saw an article about that language in my newsfeed a couple of days ago. I'll give anything to find out what else they need it for. I mean I did read it, but, ah, it did not make much sense. Never mind our friends from the financial arena on the list. ----- Gregg C Levine [email protected] "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 7:21 PM Joe Monk <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you want the latest COBOL go to gnucobol (opencobol became gnu cobol > like 3 releases ago). > > https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-cobol/ > > joe > > On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 5:55 PM John McKown <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > 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/ > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Kindest Regards, > > > > > > ☮ Paul Flint > > > (802) 479-2360 Home > > > (802) 595-9365 Cell > > > > > > Paul Flint > > > 17 Averill Street > > > Barre, VT > > > 05641 > > > > > > > -- > > People in sleeping bags are the soft tacos of the bear world. > > Maranatha! <>< > > John McKown And this spot was used by the Rebel Alliance to restore the Republic, again. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
