Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 10:04:20 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: dss-gmbh@t-online.de (DSS) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: COBOL compiler with FreeBSD Message-ID: <199606211704.KAA18523@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <m0uX8dl-0000fNC@ermail02.btx.dtag.de> from "DSS" at Jun 21, 96 06:00:00 pm
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> We have started with FreeBSD 2.1 and everything works fine. One problem > remains: we have 500 COBOL-programs and do not know if there is a > COBOL-compiler available for FreeBSD. We have tried ACUCOBOL and > MicroFocus, but it does not work. Perhaps you can give us a hint ? > A translator cobol2c would be also o.k. Actually, I have to admit to a certain fondness for the idea of having a COBOL compiler available, if for no other reason than to support the massive amount of legacy code out there, and for the ability to have verifiability, even if it means that the language limits the complexity of the algorithms you can encode in it. I don't know about ACUCOBOL or MicroFocus, since I'm not sure of how their development environment works. I thought that the RM/COBOL (Ryan-McFarland) compiler came with its own linker and produced IBCS2 binaries. If this is the case, then it should be possible to use the SCO UNIX version on FreeBSD under emulation. If anyone knows about a cobol2c precompiler, I'd be real interested in seeing that come in as a package on FreeBSD. I think I saw (a long time ago on wuarchive.wustl.edu) a COBOL to Ada precompiler... and there *IS* an Ada compiler (GNU Ada) for FreeBSD, so maybe that would do it for you? I'm not sure it handled the COBOL-85 extensions... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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