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From: cwr@pnet01.cts.com (Will Rose)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: COBOL for CP/M
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Date: 1 Dec 89 01:09:08 GMT
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With reference to Ruediger Soerensen's recent message about COBOL, I had the
same problem when I needed a COBOL for some classes I was taking.  Ellis
Computing, 3917 Noriega Street, San Francico, CA 94122 (when last heard of)
used to do a CP/M COBOL.  They now do an MSDOS COBOL, and have abandoned CP/M
completely, won't even sell it.  I got a copy of *their* compiler from England
- it was being sold on 3" (sic) disks for the Amstrad range of machines.  I
don't have an address for the seller, but there were (18 months ago) several.
 
This COBOL is the ANSI 78 version, and a bit limited.  It got me through the
course, which mostly used the more structured 85 (?) version, but I had to
leave more complex control structures out of my code.  I'm sorry, but I can't
remember the detailed differences.  It was cheap, ran on my generic CP/M
machines, and did the job.  I didn't like it, but I probably wouldn't like any
COBOL; I don't do the sort of jobs it was designed for.
 
Hope this helps - Will
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