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Subject: Re: COBOL compiler with FreeBSD
To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 10:55:55 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199606211704.KAA18523@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Jun 21, 96 10:04:20 am"
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According to Terry Lambert:

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> 
> 
> I don't know about ACUCOBOL or MicroFocus, since I'm not sure of how
> their development environment works.
> 
> I thought that the RM/COBOL (Ryan-McFarland) compiler came with its
> own linker and produced IBCS2 binaries.  If this is the case, then
> it should be possible to use the SCO UNIX version on FreeBSD under
> emulation.
> 
> If anyone knows about a cobol2c precompiler, I'd be real interested
> in seeing that come in as a package on FreeBSD.
> 
> I think I saw (a long time ago on wuarchive.wustl.edu) a COBOL to Ada
> precompiler... and there *IS* an Ada compiler (GNU Ada) for FreeBSD,
> so maybe that would do it for you?
> 
> I'm not sure it handled the COBOL-85 extensions...
> 
> 

	Is there a COBOL-to-FORTRAN translator?  How about 
	Ada-to-Pascal or COBOL-to-Pascal?

	Agree that with the terabytes of dusty desks of COBOL
	that it would be nice to have access to this work in
	C.

	gary kline