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) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.