From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 2 14:29:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6959B37B5AB for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 14:29:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA17150; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 16:29:09 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 16:29:08 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Ryan.Gamo@sce.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: COBOL Message-ID: <20000602162908.A16359@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from "Ryan.Gamo@sce.com" on Fri Jun 2 10:20:15 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jun 02), Ryan.Gamo@sce.com said: > Is there something out there that will let me run COBOL programs under > FreeBSD? Preferably a free software package. I run version 3.3 and found > nothing under ports. The best you're likely to get is running Merant (formerly MicroFocus) COBOL under Linux Emulation. > Why COBOL? Ease of creation, maintenance, etc... and the ability to > process data repetitively and accurately. I plan on making HTML > reports with it. Ever hear of Perl? :) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message