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  • Followup: RE: ibcs and Linux 64 bit kernel

    For those in the Linux world that don't "get" iBcs, I would like to explain why it's been so useful to us ... I have for 10 years used ibcs to host our Cobol interpreter. The interpreter was released on SCO OS5. We have no access to compiler sources. A good Cobol compiler is hard to find for Linux unless you are a big user willing to pay "enterprise licence fees". The open...

    2009-06-11 09:32:34 UTC in Linux ABI Project

  • ibcs and Linux 64 bit kernel

    In January 2007, Ed Reed wrote (in this forum): "64-bit support - not for the ABI, of course, but so that users on a 64-bit machine can use their 64-bit OS to run 32-bit ABI applications and have the ABI interface keep up." Has ibcs/abi kept up? Does anyone successfully run these emulator modules in a 64 bit kernel? I am attempting to run ibcs_3.8 with Redhat Linux 5 (2.6.18)

    2009-06-11 09:25:28 UTC in Linux ABI Project

  • Followup: RE: can't run ilas2

    I don't know if this question is still open ... Your posting shows things looking OK from abi perspective. What you don't post is the error message displayed when you try to run Ilas2. So at a command prompt, you type "Ilas2" ... then what? P.S I am in a similar situation: I get "Segmentation fault" when I run Cobol ... I'm still trying to figure it out!

    2009-06-05 16:17:18 UTC in Linux ABI Project

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