How could I run this program on LInux?

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Feb 28, 2006, Ben Duncan wrote:
>yeah, but which one:
>
>FWIW: Linux COBOL Compilers Available are:
>
>Acucobol 	- http://www.acucobol.com
>Fujitsu Cobol	- http://www.adtools.com   (weird URL for a cobol compiler 
>;-> )
>Ryan McFarland	- http://www.liant.com/

RMCOBOL is one of the oldest, and was use in the RealWorld ``accounting''
software over twenty years ago.  The versions used on Tandy Xenix had a
nasty habit of nuking their internal indices (I made a fair amount of money
with a program I wrote to reconstruct blown RMCOBOL files).

>Micro Focus 	- http://www.microfocus.com (My Favorite COBOL flavour)

If I remember correctly Microfocus COBOL compiles to a pseudo code that
runs on any system with a Microfocus runtime.

My favorite COBOL was on Burroughs Medium Systems (B-2500->B4800).  I
learned on that, and though all COBOL was fully recursive (which caused me
considerable grief when I first ran into other vendor's versions :-).

Bill
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