How could I run this program on LInux?

[Ben Duncan]

RM did the same thing on the ol TI DX10/DNOS Mini's.
TI supplied a "recovery" utility.

MicroFOcus Compiles either a runtime module or NATIVE (.gnt), which
is a binary module. I liked the fact that it kept it's ISAM files
in 2 distinct files. One was the so called ".idx" and the others
where the ".DAT" (for the data side). If you had a problem, real
simple to rebuild from the DAT files.

AcuCobol is a "bytecode" and requires a runtime license. IT's ISAM file
manager called VISION seems a lot like more like an ADVANCE RM ISAM
file manager.

IF you get down to it, they are just variations of a B+-tree ...


Me, I always HATED CICS ... most brain dead excuse for COBOL there was.

Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2006, Ben Duncan wrote:
<SNIP>
> 
> 
> 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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