Has anyone ported Microfocus Cobol to Debian? It is presently running
on a SCO system. I see that it is available for Suse and Red Hat, why
not Debian?


--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On 01/03/08 20:07, Chris Parker wrote:
> Has anyone ported Microfocus Cobol to Debian? It is presently running
> on a SCO system. I see that it is available for Suse and Red Hat, why
> not Debian?

Linux is Linux, all the distros use glibc, ncurses, etc, etc. So if
you install alien, why shouldn't it work?

But... since MF charges Big Bucks, and probably only supports RH &
SuSE, that's what I'd run it on. And try it on CentOS before
spending more Big Bucks on RHAS licenses.

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA

"I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian
because I hate vegetables!"
unknown
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFHfauoS9HxQb37XmcRAtjsAJ4tVfHumNmV8T5TzIPwdJ n2sN8bjQCfcVuK
ZXTve6wy8dMFvb5ByFUa6nw=
=Fxco
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----


--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org

On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 21:44 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> On 01/03/08 20:07, Chris Parker wrote:
> > Has anyone ported Microfocus Cobol to Debian? It is presently running
> > on a SCO system. I see that it is available for Suse and Red Hat, why
> > not Debian?
>
> Linux is Linux, all the distros use glibc, ncurses, etc, etc. So if
> you install alien, why shouldn't it work?
>
> But... since MF charges Big Bucks, and probably only supports RH &
> SuSE, that's what I'd run it on. And try it on CentOS before
> spending more Big Bucks on RHAS licenses.
>
> - --
> Ron Johnson, Jr.
> Jefferson LA USA
>
> "I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian
> because I hate vegetables!"
> unknown
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
>
> iD8DBQFHfauoS9HxQb37XmcRAtjsAJ4tVfHumNmV8T5TzIPwdJ n2sN8bjQCfcVuK
> ZXTve6wy8dMFvb5ByFUa6nw=
> =Fxco
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>
>

Thanks. The Microfocus Cobol is a tar file. We do not have an rpm to
alien. The install script has to be played with and faked some. we are
in the process of doing that. It was originally installed on SCO Unix.

thanks
Chris


--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org

On 01/04/08 18:50, Chris Parker wrote:

On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 21:44 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:


On 01/03/08 20:07, Chris Parker wrote:

Has anyone ported Microfocus Cobol to Debian? It is presently running
on a SCO system. I see that it is available for Suse and Red Hat, why
not Debian?

Linux is Linux, all the distros use glibc, ncurses, etc, etc. So if
you install alien, why shouldn't it work?

But... since MF charges Big Bucks, and probably only supports RH &
SuSE, that's what I'd run it on. And try it on CentOS before
spending more Big Bucks on RHAS licenses.



Thanks. The Microfocus Cobol is a tar file. We do not have an rpm to
alien. The install script has to be played with and faked some. we are
in the process of doing that. It was originally installed on SCO Unix.


Run SCO binaries on Linux?

Am I misunderstanding you?

--
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA

"I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian
because I hate vegetables!"
unknown


--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org

Chris Parker <chris_parker@adelphia.net>:
>
> On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 21:44 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >
> > Linux is Linux, all the distros use glibc, ncurses, etc, etc. So if
> > you install alien, why shouldn't it work?
> >
> > But... since MF charges Big Bucks, and probably only supports RH &
> > SuSE, that's what I'd run it on. And try it on CentOS before
> > spending more Big Bucks on RHAS licenses.
>
> Thanks. The Microfocus Cobol is a tar file. We do not have an rpm to
> alien. The install script has to be played with and faked some. we are
> in the process of doing that. It was originally installed on SCO Unix.

DESCRIPTION

alien is a program that converts between Red Hat rpm, Debian
deb, Stampede slp, Slackware tgz, and Solaris pkg file
formats. ...

I don't see that it demands an rpm as input.


--
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
(*) http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292
- - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Please, don't Cc: me.


--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org