Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 10:55:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: dss-gmbh@t-online.de, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: COBOL compiler with FreeBSD Message-ID: <199606211755.KAA15178@athena.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <199606211704.KAA18523@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Jun 21, 96 10:04:20 am"
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According to Terry Lambert: [ ... ] > > > 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... > > Is there a COBOL-to-FORTRAN translator? How about Ada-to-Pascal or COBOL-to-Pascal? Agree that with the terabytes of dusty desks of COBOL that it would be nice to have access to this work in C. gary kline
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