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Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 14:34:33 -0500
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
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Subject: Re: Cobol compiler
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In the last episode (Sep 25), Walter C. Pelissero said:
> Did anybody try Microfocus Cobol compiler (the SCO versione) on
> FreeBSD?
> 
> If not, do you have a suggestion on a Cobol compiler for FreeBSD?

(emssrv5:dan) /home/dan> uname -a
FreeBSD emssrv5.emsphone.com 2.2.7-STABLE FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE #1: Sat Aug  1 14:20:33 CDT 1998     zsh@emssrv5.emsphone.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/EMSSRV5  i386
(emssrv5:dan) /home/dan> cobrun
V3.2 revision 50 build 10/10/2 G; 31195. Run Time System 2XCGG/ZZ0/00000G

We've been running MF Cobol apps on 2.2.* machines for about two years
now (ever since 2.2.0-ALPHA).  It runs rings around our SCO box, which
now sits idle cause noone will use it :)

I had to do the following to get it running on BSD:

create /compat/ibcs2/dev/X0R, dev/nfsd and dev/socksys, all symlinked
  to /dev/null.
copy SCO's /etc/default/lang to /compat/ibcs2/etc/default/lang
copy SCO's /usr/lib/lang to /compat/ibcs2/usr/lib/lang
copy SCO's /usr/lib/terminfo to /compat/ibcs2/usr/lib/terminfo

And that was it.  If you're planning on running over NFS, I have a
kernel patch to the IBCS pathconf() that keeps MFCobol from truncating
filenames over NFS to 13 characters.

	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com

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