Hi, Has anyone on this list had any success with installing and using Open Cobol on RH or CentOS? Any pointers would be very welcome. I have Googled and am working with Vince on the Open Cobol mailing list to try to resolve installation problems. ChrisG
Chris Geldenhuis wrote:> > Has anyone on this list had any success with installing and using Open > Cobol on RH or CentOS? > > Any pointers would be very welcome. > > I have Googled and am working with Vince on the Open Cobol mailing list > to try to resolve installation problems.*sigh* <pulls brown paper bag over head> ObAdmission: I wrote *way* too much COBOL a long time ago, in a galaxy far away.... It really is past time to migrate to another language, y'know. You could probably move it to something like perl fairly easily, or even *bleah* java. mark
On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 16:53 +0200, Chris Geldenhuis wrote:> Has anyone on this list had any success with installing and using Open > Cobol on RH or CentOS? > Any pointers would be very welcome.I played with it once years ago; it seemed to work Ok. Sadly, COBOL is not COBOL and ISAM is not ISAM, so code portability isn't likely and the Open COBOL application possibly won't be able to access the files from an RM or Acu COBOL application [some things never change]. So you'd at least have to export / import any data between COBOL compilers. At least COBOL had a relatively simple and reliable way to produce CRUD screens; which just about every other environment *still* lacks - at least the Open Source onces. Oh well.
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