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Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 10:36:59 -0600
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To: jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com
Cc: Thierry CROS <t.cros.twam@pyrenet.fr>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: COBOL Language for FreeBSD
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In the last episode (Jan 06), Josef Grosch said:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 02:16:14PM +0000, Thierry CROS wrote:
> > Hello
> > I am a new user of Free BSD and I look for a Cobol Compiler. Is there
> > any one available for FreeBSD 2.2.2 ?
> > Thanks
> > 
> 
> Currently there is no COBOL compiler available for FreeBSD or Linux.
> The GNU people are pretty hostile to the idea and Microfocus dosen't
> even know we exist.

Microfocus may not know we exist, but I've been running the SCO version
of MFC 3.2 (yes, it's old) for about a year now under IBCS2 emulation
with no problems (except the 2-gig filesize limit).

	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com