[net.general] COBOL on UNIX: one answer

ignatz (06/12/82)

Sorry for putting this on the net, but I can't seem to mail to the following
path, which headed a request for info on UNIX COBOL:

harpo!decvax!ucbvax!G:ARPAVAX:CAD:teklabs!reed!billst

(If anyone can explain WTH is going on with that address, and why the berkeley
mailer barfs on it, thnx much. This isn't the first time I've gotten munged up
trying to go thru there...-dmi)

Dave,
	According to the /usr/group winter 1981 catalog, you've got at least
the following commercial suppliers of COBOL for UNIX:

Micro Focus, Inc.			Product:	CIS COBOL
1601 Civic Center Drive			Contact:	Paul A. Adams
Santa Clara, CA 95050			Phone:		(408) 496-0176
					Applications:	Software Devpt./Engineering

Description: ANSI 74 COBOL compiler with powerful extensions for interactive
		applications support.

Date of first installation:	1977	Source code:	Available

Product written in: COBOL compiler	Product Available for: Intel 8080 8085,
in subset ANSI 74 COBOL, run time	8086; Zilog Z80, Z8000; Motorola 6809,
execution environment in C		68000;DEC PDP-11,LSI-11;O/S compatible
language for maximum portability	with CP/M or MP/M, UNIX, and RT-11.
and compatibility with the UNIX
environment

Other Details: CIS COBOL has held a GSA certificate to the Low-Intermediate
Federal COBOL Standard for 2 years and is thus approved for Federal use. The
FORMS2 source code generator is available for optional use with CIS COBOL
compilers.

(NOTE: FORMS2, according to the description, is a source code generator for
interactive COBOL programs- dmi)

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The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.		Product: CIS COBOL
500 Chestnut Street			Contact: Frank Jordan
Santa Cruz, CA 95060			Phone:	 (408) 425-7222
					Applications: Software Devpt./Engineer-
						ing, Business Applications,
						Office Automation/Word Proc.

Description: ANSI 74 COBOL Compiler with powerful extensions for interactive
	     applications support.

Date of first installation: 1-81	Source code:	available

Product written in: COBOL compiler	Product available for: DEC PDP-11 under
in subset ANSI 74 COBOL, run time	UNIX, XENIX, DYNIX or equivalent; ONYX
execution environment in C lang-	C8002 under ON-PLUS, ONIX, IS/1.
uage for maximum portability and
compatible (sic) with UNIX environs.

Other Details: Product of Micro Focus. COBOL source and object modules may be
ussed virtually unchanged form CIS COBOL systems as the COBOL compiler is 
identical. UNIX CIS COBOL is fully comaptible with other UNIX languages,
utilities, and files.

(NOTE: Notice that the above is the same as from Micro Focus, but sounds as if
these people may have hacked a bit to make it more UNIX compatible. You may
want to ask them why you shouldn't buy directly from Micro Focus...-dmi)
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I hope this helps. G'luck!
				Dave Ihnat
				Analysts International Corporation
				contracted to
				 Bell Telephone Laboratories
				 Naperville (Indian Hill), IL
				 ihuxl!ignatz
				(312) 979-6747

PS: Incidentally, I have no great faith in this path. Dave, if you get this
    give me a note letting me know it got there. Anyone on the path, if this
    deadheads on your system, could you backtrace a message to me letting me
    know where it died? Thnx-dmi.