Cobol - Re: M/F Personal Cobol 2.0 for Dos problem running under windows

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Re: M/F Personal Cobol 2.0 for Dos problem running under windows

Arnold Trembley

2005-02-23, 3:55 am

If you want to continue to use an older COBOL compiler for MS-DOS
under Windows XP, have you considered running it in a DOS emulator.

Here's a free one, although it was originally written for running DOS
games:

http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1

I was able to run the education version of Realia COBOL, a crippled
version of RealiaCOBOL 3.0 from about 1990, in DOSBOX 6.3. In a WinXP
dos box the compiler crashes when attempting to write data to the DOS
screen by poking data into fixed memory locations. That no longer
works under Windows XP.

I hope that helps.

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