cobol compiler for suse

Applications Programming
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hi

could you please suggest me any cobol compiler for suse linux.

any help would me much appreciated ..

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thanks
rakesh kumar

2

microfocus cobol seems pretty standard these days, and suse is on their support list.

3

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 .?

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For gui apps you will need X-Windows software for your windows box, for example xming

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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.

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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":

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):

(Versions displayed with local utility "version")
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 ):

(Versions displayed with local utility "version")
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

But nothing in standard SuSE:

vm-suse ~ % zypper search cobol
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
No packages found.

for:

OS, ker|rel, machine: Linux, 2.6.34.7-0.5-default, i686
Distribution        : openSUSE 11.3 (Teal)

Good luck ... cheers, drl

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thanks alot citaylor.
i have installed cobol successfully ..