Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!umd5!decuac!dolqci!stein From: stein@dolqci.UUCP (Mike Stein) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: COBOL compiler for UNIX Message-ID: <686@dolqci.UUCP> Date: 9 Dec 87 22:09:30 GMT References: <1508@motown.UUCP> <4601@eecae.UUCP> Reply-To: stein@dolqci.UUCP (Mike Stein) Followup-To: <4601@eecae.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: Dept. of Labor, Unemployment Insurance Lines: 27 Keywords: COBOL Summary: There are several Normally I'd reply to the original requestor by email (I did for someone else asking about COBOL environments), but I missed the request and it's purged here. There are three COBOL environments I know about for System V. The really portable one is Ryan-McFarland's RM/COBOL. It is available for a wide variety of machines and is pretty solid in my experience. The one big drawback is that it's pseudocompiled, so there are space limitations and it's slow. I tried Philon COBOL on an ATT Unix PC (7300) (aka 3B1) last year. We could not get it to link to C language subroutines as documented in the manual, so we abandoned it. It is true compiled and fast, but make sure that all the features you need work (such as C routine linking). I did one system in MicroFocus COBOL on a 3B2/400. It worked fairly well, had a pseudocompiled and true compile mode, and was fairly well documented. We did have some intermittent and not-reliably-reprodu- cible problems with it; I don't know if they were fixed. (They may have been os problems rather than compiler problems.) Annoyance: there's a termcaps-style configuration file that you have to set up for it. Hope this helps. - Mike Stein uunet!vrdxhq!dolqci!stein (202)535-0640 The above represents the absolute truth. Therefore it could not possibly have been written or approved by my employer.