Some distributions provide a COBOL in their repositories for easy, safe, updatable installs. For example, many Debian versions provide "Open COBOL":
from the "unsafe" version of Debian, "sid" (running in a virtual machine):
found also in Debian stable ( lenny ):
But nothing in standard SuSE:
for:
Good luck ... cheers, drl
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01 WS-COMD-LINE-PGM X(39) value sh ./getUserId.sh 12345"
01 WS-RETURN-SYS-CODE PIC 9(8).
CALL "SYSTEM" USING WS-COMD-LINE-PGM
GIVING WS-RETURN-SYS-CODE.
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Hi
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sudo apt-get install open-cobol
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