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From: ywliu@beta.wsl.sinica.edu.tw ()
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Cobol (shudder) for FreeBSD...?
Date: 6 Jan 1995 06:44:34 GMT
Organization: Computing Center, Academia Sinica
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Coranth Gryphon (shaman@mv.mv.com) wrote:
: I hate to ask this but, is there a cobol compiler for FreeBSD...?

: -coranth

Since FreeBSD 2.0 supports iBCS2 format, Micro Focus Cobol 3.1 for SCO Unix
may run.

You may want to refer to COBOL.FAQ on comp.answers.

Yen-Wei Liu