FreeeBSD an Cobol...

[Helius]

Hello everyone...

If've a problem with an old programm called "asscomp". One of my teachers want's it for his wife, or something... .

This programm seems to be old. I think it is from the early 90's or even older. I (think I)know this programm is done in Cobolt, and that's my problem. I need to get some COBOL libaries or something, but I didn't find anything about this old stuff.

I can start it, but I get some errormessages, like "couldn't find XXX".

The programm runs on an old SCO Unix box, the HD crashed, and I just have an tape backup of it... . I think it wouldn't be a problem to run it on an FreeBSD box, or is it maybe better to use SCO Unix???

Any Ideas???

[ 09 May 2001: Message edited by: Helius ]

[Cobol_Stephy]

I've never heard of a programming laguage called cobolt. I have heard of one one called cobol. And if you need cobol programming tools, then you have a problem. Namely, their is little in the way of free cobol compilers. Most of them are commercial, and can get very expensive.

It might help if you give up the entire error message.

[Helius]

It could be that's cobol, I just heard COBOLT, but ok.

I don't need a compiler, I've just the binaries... . I just need something like libaries if something like this is necseary for the proggy.

[Beowulfs_Ghost]

Helius, what library is it asking for?

Let me see if I understand you're problem. You have an old Cobol program that used to run on an SCO box. Now youo are trying to run it on a FreeBSD box, and it's giving you errors due to a missing lib.

Two things;
If memory serves, SCO is based on Xenix, which is SysV based. FreeBSD is BSD based. So these Unix's are slightly different. But FreeBSD does have some SysV compatability. And then your solution may be as simple as linking the FreeBSD libs to were the app would be looking. SCO and FreeBSD probably put their libs in different places. (Any SCO buffs out their to clus this guy in on SCO's file structure).

The second thing, is that the Cobol app may have been using a third party library. Like Cobol Stephy said, it may have come with a Cobol compiler, or have come with the app if it was a commercial app. In which case, you may be out of luck regarless of which Unix you run this app on. You may want to try and get intouch with who ever made the app, and see they can help.

[Helius]

THX, I'll try it. I'll do a search about that tomorrow. The problem is, that this is a commercial app, and I don't have any install files, or even a origninal disk.

It's strange. My teacher told me that the company that developed it send a support man to install it, and he hasn't left any disks.

I just thought there were something like COBOL libaries that I've to install.

The programm does start into it's menu, but if I try to get into some areas it gives an message which I can't really read because it takes my back into main menu in fractions of seconds... . So I don't really know what it's missing, or if it missing anything... .

The other problem is, that I can't extract the originall system from tape backup, because the tape is corrupted...bad thing...

But THX again...please go one... :cool:

[Helius]

I just got to know what the proggy is missing...an file called "cobrun"...

Any Ideas???