I have no idea about GnuCOBOL - I remember being fond of Cobol though. WOW I took Cobol in 1983 and 1985. Back then it was required at the UofA and I think Pima College as well. I'm sure there must be high demand for those skills today. The City of Tucson had millions of lines of Cobol in 1988 - they ran most of the city on water cooled mainframes and dumb terminals. And the code was pure spaghetti code. About a year ago I was at a car show and was admiring this 1962 Corvette. I stuck up a conversation with the owner and he told me he worked with Cobol and his group optimized Cobol. I assumed he was doing ok financially since he owned a 1962 Corvette and lived in Scottsdale. Congratulations on your new Gig!! On 2015-01-05 18:33, trent shipley wrote: > I wrote to the newbie list for GnuCOBOL for some help getting started. > I'm writing to the local list to see if anyone has experience with > COBOL, and GnuCOBOL in particular. > > I got hired November 17, 2014 to a new job where I will be outsourced > to a financial company. Right now I and 19 other recruits are in a > COBOL on IBM MVS boot camp. We can't get on the training system from > home. I took six semester hours of COBOL on VMS in 1998 and 1999, so I > help out some of the trainees. You can see how GnuCOBOL would be > useful. > > Community support for GnuCOBOL native on Windows, on a native Linux > partition, or on Linux hosted on Windows (well, personally I use OS X) > would be much appreciated, even if it was just support for > installation, and early compilation and COBOL debugging. > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Keith Smith --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss