thank you citaylor.
I am connecting to a remote system using ssh - 1 version through putty. is it possible to install a GUI application like Microfocus from the terminal. if yes after install how can i able to access it .?
yes citaylor. why cobol compiler difficult to find for linux where as c,c++,java,py,perl...are easily available and comes with the native installation.
because cobol is an obsolescent language - even when I learnt it back at the end of the 1980's people were calling it a dead language. There are other (free) cobol compilers out there for linux, checkout here
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Hi.
Some distributions provide a COBOL in their repositories for easy, safe, updatable installs. For example, many Debian versions provide "Open COBOL":
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Description: COBOL compiler
OpenCOBOL implements substantial part of the COBOL 85 and COBOL 2002
standards, as well as many extensions of the existent compilers. OpenCOBOL
translates COBOL into C and compiles the translated code using GCC.
Homepage: http://www.opencobol.org/
from the "unsafe" version of Debian, "sid" (running in a virtual machine):
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OS, ker|rel, machine: Linux, 2.6.36-2.slh.3-aptosid-686, i686
Distribution : Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
GNU bash 4.1.5
found also in Debian stable ( lenny ):
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OS, ker|rel, machine: Linux, 2.6.26-2-amd64, x86_64
Distribution : Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)
GNU bash 3.2.39
cobc (OpenCOBOL) 1.0.0
Hi
I dont have a cobol compiler in my redhhat linux box, and so I want to install it. When i try the below command
sudo apt-get install open-cobol
it tells "apt-get : command not found". I tried to find apt-get under my root, could not find it anywhere.
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Is there a way you can return a value from a script that is called from a rm cobol program...
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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To make a programming language you need a compiler, so what was the first programming language and how was is created if you need the compiler first?
The compiler itself is considered as a high language comparing to the machine! since the compiler is not created in 1's and 0's...
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