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