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Accepting data from screen section By Jim French on Mon Jul 14, 2025 01:44 PM	14	168	By Anonymous on Tue Jul 15, 2025 11:11 AM
Windows 11 system cannot find cobc.exe By gus schultz on Thu Jul 10, 2025 05:22 PM	11	154	By Eugenio Di Lorenzo on Sun Jul 13, 2025 08:16 AM
Wildcard expansion quit working By Michael F Gleason on Wed Jun 25, 2025 11:23 PM	8	176	By Simon Sobisch on Thu Jul 03, 2025 06:31 AM
Program Guide typo By Michael F Gleason on Sun Jun 15, 2025 09:24 PM	19	236	By Vincent (Bryan) Coen on Mon Jun 30, 2025 05:04 PM
SEARCH problem By Maurizio Bongini on Mon Jun 09, 2025 08:57 AM	9	201	By Anonymous on Tue Jun 24, 2025 12:32 AM
gnuCobol debugger for macOS By David Bourne on Wed Apr 30, 2025 11:35 PM	13	163	By David Bourne on Fri Jun 20, 2025 05:17 PM
Issue with GCSORT using temporary files and fixed-length records – v0... By Leonardo Barbieri on Mon Jun 16, 2025 09:45 PM	15	273	By Sauro Menna on Fri Jun 20, 2025 03:34 PM
COBOL Trace File Not Getting Created in CHUI on Linux (GNU COBOL 2.2,... By Anshul Agrawal on Thu Jun 12, 2025 06:28 AM	4	60	By Simon Sobisch on Thu Jun 12, 2025 05:56 PM
VALUES ARE on TABLE ELEMENTS By Eugenio Di Lorenzo on Sun Jun 01, 2025 04:23 PM	10	173	By Arnold Trembley on Wed Jun 04, 2025 03:11 AM
Error when building on Archlinux: call.c:1352:14: error: too many arg... By Edmund Lodewijks on Sat May 03, 2025 04:54 PM	12	172	By Edmund Lodewijks on Sun May 04, 2025 04:58 PM
CBL_DELETE_FILE By Maurizio Bongini on Sat May 17, 2025 11:48 AM	11	150	By Maurizio Bongini on Sun May 18, 2025 03:52 PM
compiler Cobc behaviour with corrupted source files By Maurizio Bongini on Tue May 13, 2025 03:20 PM	31	285	By Simon Sobisch on Fri May 16, 2025 03:08 PM
COMPUTE gives different result than SUBTRACT By Michael F Gleason on Fri Feb 07, 2025 02:43 AM	10	426	By Michael F Gleason on Mon May 05, 2025 11:43 PM
When GnuCOBOL DLL is called it closes all open files on exit even if ... By Gary on Wed Apr 30, 2025 02:11 PM	3	114	By Ralph Linkletter on Wed Apr 30, 2025 10:58 PM
Open Extend sequential file getting Permanent Error 30 By David Wall on Mon Feb 20, 2017 03:43 AM	26	2939	By Ralph Linkletter on Wed Apr 30, 2025 05:04 PM
How to call a C dynamic Library By Maurizio Bongini on Sat Apr 26, 2025 05:40 PM	3	85	By Maurizio Bongini on Sun Apr 27, 2025 05:50 PM
Screen section - UTF-8 locale - ACCEPT does not show é § è ç à ö By Anonymous on Thu May 21, 2020 07:10 AM	52	3702	By Juan Carlos Escartí on Sun Apr 27, 2025 08:51 AM
DIsplay Euro sign and others Italian characters at screen position By Maurizio Bongini on Sat Mar 29, 2025 06:00 PM	23	389	By Simon Sobisch on Mon Apr 14, 2025 02:42 PM
FreeDOS 1.4 By Ralph Linkletter on Thu Apr 10, 2025 05:57 PM	1	79	By Ralph Linkletter on Thu Apr 10, 2025 05:57 PM
Attempt to reference unallocated memory (signal SIGSEGV) abnormal ter... By Anshul Agrawal on Wed Apr 02, 2025 06:23 AM	6	126	By Anshul Agrawal on Fri Apr 04, 2025 04:55 AM
Warning and errors compiling Jay Moseley's tape utilities. By Marco Antoniotti on Tue Mar 25, 2025 08:06 PM	4	79	By Marco Antoniotti on Tue Mar 25, 2025 09:33 PM
Porting a Fujitsu NetCOBOL project to GnuCOBOL By Peter Koch on Mon Mar 17, 2025 02:17 PM	5	233	By Chuck Haatvedt on Fri Mar 21, 2025 10:08 PM
_FORTIFY_SOURCE" redefined By Maurizio Bongini on Thu Mar 13, 2025 03:38 PM	5	333	By Maurizio Bongini on Thu Mar 20, 2025 06:39 PM
COBCPY By Maurizio Bongini on Wed Mar 12, 2025 01:29 PM	9	280	By Maurizio Bongini on Thu Mar 20, 2025 04:32 PM
Dynamic Modules and CALL By Marco Antoniotti on Sun Mar 02, 2025 03:12 PM	17	313	By Marco Antoniotti on Sun Mar 09, 2025 07:36 PM

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