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stansaraczewski Beginner
Joined: 06 Sep 2006 Posts: 44 Topics: 13 Location: Southern California
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 8:49 am Post subject: Free cobol compiler |
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Has anyone installed the Fujitsu cobol compiler ? It's backlevel but free and I was wondering if there were any pitfalls before I proceeded...
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Nic Clouston Advanced
Joined: 01 Feb 2007 Posts: 1075 Topics: 7 Location: At Home
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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 4:35 am Post subject: |
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I installed it on Windoze 98 many years ago. As far as I remember it was OK but I was only using it to learn COBOL and I was using a number of other free compilers as well.
I recently tried to install it on XP Home but the instalation failed - but that may be due to a temperamental DVD drive. I then started to install the current Microfocus academic edition only to notice it requires XP Professional - why I do not know. What student can afford the extra hundreds of currency units to install that? _________________ Utility and Program control cards are NOT, repeat NOT, JCL. |
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jyoung Beginner
Joined: 10 Nov 2005 Posts: 36 Topics: 2 Location: Flint, MI
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stansaraczewski Beginner
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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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Nic - I installed the MicroFocus academic compiler at home and I do NOT have XP 'Professional'. It does compile ok, although I need to spend some more time with it. |
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stansaraczewski Beginner
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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you JYOUNG for the link. |
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