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Realia - installing GnuCobol to work with Realia programs and files By Anonymous on Wed Oct 01, 2025 10:04 PM	15	156	By Marco Antoniotti on Sun Oct 05, 2025 08:13 PM
Installing GnuCobol 3.2 with vbisam 2.2 By serge lacombe on Wed Oct 01, 2025 12:14 PM	2	67	By Simon Sobisch on Thu Oct 02, 2025 07:53 PM
COBOL Extensions for VS Codium By Rich Di Iulio on Fri Sep 19, 2025 01:50 AM	29	324	By Simon Sobisch on Tue Sep 30, 2025 09:57 PM
Windows 11 system cannot find cobc.exe By gus schultz on Thu Jul 10, 2025 05:22 PM	12	307	By Anonymous on Tue Sep 30, 2025 05:06 AM
Problem installing gnucobol 3.2 By serge lacombe on Sat Sep 20, 2025 01:04 PM	3	101	By Anonymous on Sun Sep 21, 2025 04:13 PM
GC on Windows 10 By Gregory A Failing on Mon Aug 25, 2025 01:06 PM	20	304	By Rich Di Iulio on Wed Sep 17, 2025 12:44 AM
Wrong compiler error message ? By Eugenio Di Lorenzo on Fri Sep 12, 2025 05:47 PM	3	56	By Simon Sobisch on Sun Sep 14, 2025 09:27 PM
MENU reserved word By Eugenio Di Lorenzo on Sun Sep 14, 2025 04:54 PM	3	38	By Simon Sobisch on Sun Sep 14, 2025 08:52 PM
FUNCTION DISPLAY-OF & NATIONAL-OF By Morten Juhl Hansen on Tue Sep 09, 2025 11:42 AM	2	66	By Simon Sobisch on Tue Sep 09, 2025 12:02 PM
Getting to an executable on MacOS By Alan Honeyman on Fri Sep 05, 2025 10:35 AM	10	108	By Alan Honeyman on Mon Sep 08, 2025 01:52 AM
LLM usage to create COBOL code... still fails By Ralph Linkletter on Sun Aug 31, 2025 10:33 PM	4	107	By Mickey White on Mon Sep 01, 2025 02:14 PM
Issue with GCSORT using temporary files and fixed-length records – v0... By Leonardo Barbieri on Mon Jun 16, 2025 09:45 PM	16	370	By Simon Sobisch on Wed Aug 20, 2025 03:36 PM
Accepting data from screen section By Jim French on Mon Jul 14, 2025 01:44 PM	14	188	By Anonymous on Tue Jul 15, 2025 11:11 AM
Wildcard expansion quit working By Michael F Gleason on Wed Jun 25, 2025 11:23 PM	8	183	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	253	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	211	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	186	By David Bourne on Fri Jun 20, 2025 05:17 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	79	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	187	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	182	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	158	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	296	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	443	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	132	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	3025	By Ralph Linkletter on Wed Apr 30, 2025 05:04 PM

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