From: yusuf@cs.uwp.edu (Muhammad Yusuf)
Subject: Re: Help--Compiler question
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Parkside
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Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 04:56:44 GMT

2429oconnorw@vms.csd.mu.edu wrote:
: Hi, I'm new to this group and I'm asking for a friend.  Could someone
: please tell me where I could find a Cobol compiler for IBM-compat
: on the Net if one does exist.  Please E-Mail.
: Thanks
: 
: Bill O'Connor               | In the course of human events, there is
: Marquette University        | always one person who will screw things
: Milwaukee, WI               | up.
: 2429OCONNORW@VMS.CSD.MU.EDU |

Cobol 65 is IBM PC cobol compiler... but to make EXE executable
files you will need a linker (you can use the LINK.EXE which
is part of the MS-DOS/IBM-DOS).

Try these anonymous ftp sites:

Host faui43.informatik.uni-erlangen.de

    Location: /mounts/cyber/iwiftp/public/pc/msdos/language/cobol
           FILE -rw-rw-r--     185046  Mar 31 1991  cobol650.zip

Host ftp.uu.net

    Location: /systems/ibmpc/msdos/simtel20/cobol
           FILE -rw-r--r--     185046  Mar 30 1991  cobol650.zip

Host garbo.uwasa.fi

    Location: /pc/programming
           FILE -rw-rw-r--     160105  Oct 10 1990  cobol650.zip

Host gdr.bath.ac.uk

    Location: /simtel-cdrom/msdos/cobol
           FILE -r-xr-xr-x     185046  Mar 31 1991  cobol650.zip

Host isfs.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp

    Location: /mirrors/simtel20.msdos/cobol
           FILE -rw-rw-r--     185046  Mar 31 1991  cobol650.zip

Host nic.funet.fi

    Location: /pub/msdos/SIMTEL20-mirror/cobol
           FILE -rw-r--r--     179399  Oct 12 1990  cobol650.zip
    Location: /pub/msdos/languages/cobol
           FILE -rw-r--r--     179399  Oct 12 1990  cobol650.zip

Host nic.switch.ch

    Location: /mirror/msdos/cobol
           FILE -rw-rw-r--     185046  Mar 31 1991  cobol650.zip

Host plaza.aarnet.edu.au

    Location: /micros/pc/garbo/pc/programming
           FILE -r--r--r--     160105  Oct 11 1990  cobol650.zip
    Location: /micros/pc/oak/cobol
           FILE -rw-r--r--     185046  Mar 31 1991  cobol650.zip
    Location: /micros/pc/simtel-20/cobol
           FILE -rw-r--r--     185046  Mar 31 1991  cobol650.zip

Host rigel.acs.oakland.edu

    Location: /pub/msdos/cobol
           FILE -rw-r--r--     185046  Mar 31 1991  cobol650.zip

Host rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de

    Location: /.serv3/soft/pc/lang/cobol
           FILE -rw-rw-r--     187205  May 28 1991  cobol650.zip

Host sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de

    Location: /pub/msdos/simtel/cobol
           FILE -r--r--r--     185046  Mar 31 1991  cobol650.zip

Host swdsrv.edvz.univie.ac.at

    Location: /pc/dos/cobol
           FILE -rw-r--r--     185046  Mar 31 1991  cobol650.zip

Host tupac-amaru.informatik.rwth-aachen.de

    Location: /pub/rz.archiv/simtel/msdos/cobol
           FILE -rwxr-xr-x     185046  May 28 1991  cobol650.zip

Host wuarchive.wustl.edu

    Location: /mirrors/msdos/cobol
           FILE -rw-r--r--     185046  Mar 31 1991  cobol650.zip
    Location: /mirrors3/archive.umich.edu/msdos/programming/cobol
           FILE -rw-rw-r--     185046  May 20 1991  cobol650.zip


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