On Friday, 17 March 2006 20:46, Paul wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I know, writing COBOL is for old farts. But I need a decent Cobol
> compiler.
> I installed open-cobol which performs, sort of, until I try to handle
> files. Then it dies.
>
> Does someone know a working cobol compiler for Linux? If possible a free
> one?
>
> I also tried tiny-cobol, but that doesn't even install.
I think you're out of luck. I may be mistaken, but I think the only fully
functional COBOL compiler for Linux is ACUCOBOL which costs about US$1500 or
more for one user, and about US$300 more for each extra developer. That's
what it cost the last time I had anything to do with it, which was about 5
years ago.
COBOL2GCC seems to have run out of steam, and TinyCOBOL is too limited and
OpenCOBOL is not finished.
cheers
Duncan
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