Looking for COBOL

[Moulinaie]

Hi all,

I'm looking for a COBOL compiler for the Atari.
I know there were some of them in the past.

I'd be glad to get one !

Thanks,

Guillaume;

[Greenious]

Hehe, looking to replace your companys mainframe with an array of Atari's, eh?

[Moulinaie]

Hehe, looking to replace your companys mainframe with an array of Atari's, eh?

Haha !
Why not !!

)

[charles]

ahh cobol another unexplored language by myself.....and others!!

ill try to dig up what I have from years of scouring the net for Atari st programs.

just a compillier , or do u wish a editor too?
what do u have already for cobol ?

[Count]

I think you can use qed for editing. But you have to keep in mind that the columns of a line have certain meanings (1-6 = line number, asterisk in 7 = comment, indentation in data division etc).

[viking272]

One seems to have existed:
https://www.atarimagazines.com/startv3n ... pdate.html

[viking272]

Ah, looks like HiSOFT released COBOL in the UK. I've emailed them asking if they would follow Gribnif's lead and release their copyrighted software as Donationware.
(I think they distributed some software and wrote some).

[ThorstenOtto]

There must have been two others at least

https://www.atariuptodate.de/en/1223/fa ... l-compiler
https://www.atariuptodate.de/en/1224/nevada-cobol

[penguin]

Nevada Cobol is listed in Atari's software catalog as a compiler distributed by HiSoft. I don't remember any Cobol compiler reviewed for an Atari magazine. Probably now among many programs that are lost...

[charles]

lost programs
alongside
trio engineerings "st control"
and
grand slam , akai disk label maker

[Moulinaie]

ahh cobol another unexplored language by myself.....and others!!

ill try to dig up what I have from years of scouring the net for Atari st programs.

just a compillier , or do u wish a editor too?
what do u have already for cobol ?

Hi

A compiler would be enough. But if there is an integrated system with editor, compiler, sure this is better.

Guillaume

[ThorstenOtto]

Would https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-c ... gnu-cobol/ be an option? It translates the cobol program to C, so probably only works in conjunction with gcc (and thus only with mintt).

[Moulinaie]

Would https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-c ... gnu-cobol/ be an option? It translates the cobol program to C, so probably only works in conjunction with gcc (and thus only with mintt).

The idea was more to play on Atari and reuse an old software.

Guillaume

[ThorstenOtto]

Anyway, if you want to give it a try, it is now available at http://tho-otto.de/crossmint.php (don't get confused, this is *not* a cross-compiler, it just was built using one).

Did only a quick few tests. There seem to be some issues: i could not get it yet to use the multi-lib configuration, so currently it seems to be not possible to build 68k executables with the 020 compiler, or vice versa. And the executables get quite large, a simple "hello, world" is ~700k.

[Moulinaie]

Anyway, if you want to give it a try, it is now available at http://tho-otto.de/crossmint.php (don't get confused, this is *not* a cross-compiler, it just was built using one).

Did only a quick few tests. There seem to be some issues: i could not get it yet to use the multi-lib configuration, so currently it seems to be not possible to build 68k executables with the 020 compiler, or vice versa. And the executables get quite large, a simple "hello, world" is ~700k.

Hi!

I have downloaded the files but my Mint setting is limited to standard 8+3 filenames, I don't have a partition with long file names. Can I rename the files?

Guillaume.

[ThorstenOtto]

You can try, but as far as i've seen, the compiler also generates intermediate files with long filenames. Maybe you can work around this by running it on ramdisk that supports long filenames.